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February 28th 2003, 03:23 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2799159.stm
Fossil key to human origins
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
Palaeontologists say a new fossil find from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania could simplify our understanding of the origin of humans.
The remains of the 1.8-million-year-old hominid are said to rank among the best specimens yet discovered of the earliest members of our genus, Homo.
Writing in the journal Science, Rutgers University anthropology Professor Robert Blumenschine says the new fossil shows that at least some of the examples of two early groups of Homo should now be reunited into a single species.
Fossil key to human origins
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
Palaeontologists say a new fossil find from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania could simplify our understanding of the origin of humans.
The remains of the 1.8-million-year-old hominid are said to rank among the best specimens yet discovered of the earliest members of our genus, Homo.
Writing in the journal Science, Rutgers University anthropology Professor Robert Blumenschine says the new fossil shows that at least some of the examples of two early groups of Homo should now be reunited into a single species.