Lucy is not our oldest ancestor.
Since his bones were found in Ethiopia in 1974, Lucy (in the photo) has been considered our oldest ancestor. The remains of Australopithecus afarensis are 3.2 million years old. There were 52 bones of a woman about twenty years old and barely a meter, 40% of the skeleton, which is unusual in such old remains.
However, according to a recent study published by Ethiopian Chalachew Seyoum in Science magazine in Ethiopia itself, a piece of fossilized jaw found 25 kilometers from Lucy is homo, and older than Lucy, 2.8 million years ago. Once the Seyoum theory is proven, the family tree of our species will change once again. n
Atapuercako aztarnategian hominido zahar baten aurpegi-hezur zatiak aurkitu dituzte. Homo affinis erectus bezala sailkatu dute giza-espezieen artean, eta gure arbasoek Afrikatik kanpora egindako lehen migrazioei buruzko teoriak irauli ditzake, adituen arabera.
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