What if a skilled man is not a man?

What if a skilled man is not a man?

Homo habilis skull. In their research, the scientists focused on examining dentin, which allows for very accurate measurements, as teeth develop much slower than bone. Lanmas / Alamy via Reuters Connect

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.

Type to turn downIt appeared in Africa…

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