[Ads-l] 600,000 year antedating

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
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A graduate paleoanthropology student has found pieces of a left 
mandible and five teeth.  "The 2.8 million-year-old jawbone of a Homo 
habilis predates by at least 600,000 years any previously known Homo fossils."

NYTimes, March 5, 2015.

Joel

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