HONG KONG: Scientists stated that the latest dating technique proposes a human predecessor whose fossils were discovered in a cave of South Africa who lived nearly 3.7 million years in the past. This is nearly the similar time period when a human ancestor Lucy use to wander in the present day Ethiopia, many thousand miles to the north.
The discovery’s center of attention is a skeleton called Little Foot, which symbolizes a species in the similar group like Lucy, known as Australopithecus. However, the age of little foot has been a topic of debate from a long time.
The new discovery, published in current week’s issue of Nature, has probably raised new questions regarding the variety of human ancestors.
paleoanthropologist at Natural History Museum of London, Chris Stringer, who wasn’t in the study, in an email said to NBC News, “Whether critics of the previous dating of Little Foot will be satisfied with this new work remains to be seen, but the skeleton once again highlights the diversity of pre-human forms in both East and South Africa.”
A lead researcher and geologist, Darryl Granger at Purdue University stated that the latest discoveries might give answers to the questions regarding the Little Foot; an almost complete skeleton, classified as Australopithecus Prometheus, discovered nearly two decades in the past in Sterkfontein Cave of South Africa.
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