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...earlier analysis suggested, the fossils appear to date back nearly 2 million years. They are from the species known as Homo erectus -- the first primate to look anything like modern humans and the first to use fire and create sophisticated stone tools. Says F. Clark Howell, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley: "This is just overwhelming. No one expected such...
Other scientists say Neanderthal genes survive today. Milford Wolpoff, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, points to Neanderthal features in early Europeans as evidence that considerable interbreeding took place between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, who coexisted for tens of thousands of years in some regions...
...lake dried. The mud turned to rock and so, gradually, did her bones. She might have rested there undisturbed forever but for the roaring geologic forces that ripped the earth apart over the next 30,000 centuries, finally thrusting the long-buried fossil bones to the surface -- where American anthropologist Donald Johanson would find them in 1974. Named Lucy, after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, this long-dead primate, half-a-million years older than any known human- related species, revolutionized scientists' understanding of human origins...
...ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS...
...ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS...