20 Mar, 2008
[NEWS] ANTHROPOLOGY: Millennium Ancestor Gets Its Walking Papers
Posted by: RSS In: Sciencemag.org
An analysis on page 1662 of this week’s issue of Science concludes that 6-million-year-old Orrorin tugenensis was indeed an early ancestor of humans. But it challenges a controversial proposal that Orrorin gave rise to our genus, Homo, directly.
Author: Ann Gibbons
