Re: New finds

[Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>]

New Scientist has a report on the new hominid at 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992533

The skull is some 2 million years older than any other known hominid 
skull, and that one hasn't been formally described yet. It also shows 
that that hominids had spread over much of Africa by that time -- the 
discovery comes from Chad.

And to add a dinosaur thread, the new find also shows a mosaic of 
traits seen in later hominids, evidence that the traditional linear 
model is breaking down for human evolution just as it seems to break 
down for the evolution of birds into dinosaurs.
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