4 million year old hominid, probably belonging to a child, has been discovered in Ethiopia | Since then, 8 more foot and leg bones have been found from the same individual, who has been nicknamed Little Foot |
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Jul 2002: A fossil skull discovered in Chad, between 6 and 7 million years old, has been assigned to a new genus and species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis | Apr 2010: Two partial skeletons assigned to a new species, Australopithecus sediba, were discovered at Malapa in South Africa in 2008 |
Bermudez de Castro et al.
1997; Kahn and Gibbons 1997• Feb 2001: A French-Kenyan team has found a fossil claimed to be both considerably older than any other hominid at 6 million years and more advanced than the australopithecines | American Journal of Public Health |
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1987 : The brain of Homo habilis: a new level of organization in cerebral evolution | The fossil is about 4 million years old and has not yet been classified or published in the scientific literature, though it is said to fall between Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus afarensis |
The journal Science has published a collection of 11 papers on the skeleton and its environment.
13Oct 2004: A new species of hominid, Homo floresiensis, has been discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores | Analysis of the mtDNA of a third Neandertal from Vindija in Croatia also confirms the earlier findings |
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Atlas of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North America | The complete skull of a female Australopithecus robustus has been discovered at Drimolen in South Africa, along with the lower jaw of a male robustus found only a few inches away |
The discoverers have assigned them to a new subspecies, Homo sapiens idaltu, and say that they are anatomically and chronologically intermediate between older archaic humans and more recent fully modern humans.
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