Homo genus

A man looks at a Neanderthal fossil at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

A new fossil may date humanity’s ancestor further back than we thought

March 17, 2015Science

No one quite knows when humanity’s direct ancestors — the Homo genus — first evolved, but a fossil discovered in Ethiopia in 2013 may provide clues. And according to new studies, those clues point back further into time than was previously thought.

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