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More fossils fill "gaps" in evolution of Humans

Unabashed Greed
13-04-2006, 18:30
4-million-year-old teeth, bones found Belong to ape-like man-creature (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1144878610730&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home)

This is really cool stuff. The best part os the transitional nature of it.

"It's like 12 frames of a home movie, but a home movie covering 6 million years," said study lead author Tim White, co-director of Human Evolution Research Center at University of California at Berkeley. Fossils in the region called the Middle Awash cover three major phases of human development."