LONDON: Australopithecus is known to be the oldest ancestor of modern man. The oldest Australopithecus was found in the year 1974 in Ethiopia. The name of Australopithecus was Lucy. The age of Lucie is determined to be 3.2 million years old.
A new skeleton was found 21 years ago in South Africa, which was said to be older than Lucy. This skeleton is known as The Little Foot. It is 3.67 million years old and hence, it can be the first Australopithecus that existed.
In the area where Little Foot was found, other stone tools were also discovered that dated 2.18 million years and older. Little Foot was the discovery of Ronald Clarke, who is a professor in the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.
According to him, “It demonstrates that the later hominids, for example, Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus did not all have to have derived from Australopithecus afarensis. We have only a small number of sites and we tend to base our evolutionary scenarios on the few fossils we have from those sites. This new date is a reminder that there could well have been many species of Australopithecus extending over a much wider area of Africa”.
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