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Around 400,000 years older than previous discovery of homo lineage, 2.8m-year-old jaw and five teeth was found on rocky slope in Afar region
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A PIECE of jawbone with teeth attached, uncovered in Ethiopia, is the earliest known fossil of the genus Homo, to which humans belong, researchers said yesterday.
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It lived in Ethiopia and had characteristics similar to those of the australopithecines, but closer to those of the genus Homo
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The discovery of a 2.8-million-year-old partial jawbone in Africa could rewrite the history of human evolution.
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A mandible found in Ethiopia is the most primitive remains ever found of the genus Homo, to which we belong, and directly connects it to earlier hominids like Australopithecus.
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A piece of jawbone with teeth attached, uncovered in Ethiopia, is the earliest known fossil of the genus Homo, to which humans belong, researchers said Wednesday.
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The earliest known record of the genus Homo -- the human genus -- represented by a lower jaw with teeth, recently found in the Afar region of Ethiopia, dates to between 2.8 and 2.75 million years ago, according to an international team of geoscientists and anthropologists. They also dated other fossils to between 2.84 and 2.58 million years ago, which helped reconstruct the environment in which the individual lived.
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Scientists have possibly discovered the first human ever to walk the Earth, based on an ancient jaw fossil from Ethiopia dating back 2.8 million years ago, according to new research that also reveals the conditions under which the earliest humans evolved.
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