Scientists may have found a missing link between Australopithecus and earlier ancestors. An international team of paleontologists says it has found a 4.1 million-year-old transitional species between the earlier Ardipithecus ramidus and the later Australopithecus anamensis superimposed in sediments in Ethiopia.
The Australopithecus genus — which resembled apes in stature and brain size but unlike great apes walked on two legs — is thought to have given rise to our own genus, Homo.
The New York Times has more.
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This is really interesting because some scientists insist that we are descents of monkeys, I think it has logic so we need proofs.
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