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Decay – According to new analyzes, samples from South Africa are actually australopithecines.
Paleontology It is a living science. The contributions of new technologies constantly disturb certainty. In recent years, great progress has been made in the field of morphometry. This science consists of measuring the differences in morphology between fossil specimens. A team of scientists led by Clement Zanulli, a CNRS researcher in the Pacea Laboratory at Purdue University, is published in PNAS (Academy of Sciences Reports United States) A new analysis of the many pre-human remains discovered in South Africa shows that a large number of them are in fact attributed to the wrong group. The idea was to study all the remains previously attributed to the first representatives of the genus to turn downdated between 1.5 and 2.5 million years ago in South AfricaExplains the world. Of the 23 samples studied, only 4 to 7 teeth belong to this group.
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