Nearly all of the previous pre-human discoveries have been fragmented bones, scattered over time and locations—like a smattering of random tweets of our evolutionary history. The findings at Dmanisi are more complete, weaving more of a short story. Before the site was found, the movement from Africa was put at about 1 million years ago. When examined with the earlier Georgian finds, the skull shows that this special immigration out of Africa happened much earlier than we thought and a much more primitive group did it, said study lead author David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgia National Museum. This is important to understanding human evolution. Read more at: phys.org/news/2013-10-18m-year-old-skull-glimpse-evolution.html#jCp
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 04:42:24 +0000
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