[language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] On the Trail of a Few More Ancestors]

H. Mark Hubey HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu
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NEW YORK TIMES
April 8, 2001

On the Trail of a Few More Ancestors
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Fossils of what may be the earliest known ancestor of the human family
have
been unearthed in Kenya. The bones and teeth are about 6 million years
old, at
least 1.5 million years earlier than any similar finds, and so their
discovery
could be a major advance shaking up the human family tree yet again.

They are already shaking up the family of paleontologists.

As details emerged in recent weeks, the age of the fossils was the only
aspect
that seemed beyond dispute. To assertions by the discoverers that the
individual mostly walked upright and was a direct ancestor of modern
humans,
many prominent scientists have reacted with head- shaking skepticism
bordering
on disbelief.

Full text:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/science/08DESI.html

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