“Although Homo sapiens is the only hominin species on Earth today, for the vast majority of humanity’s existence, multiple hominin species shared the planet. Our family tree is more like a bush, with lots of twigs that were dead ends.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
Meet the Newly Discovered Human Ancestor Identified Just by Its Teeth
Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors