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...primitive tools found in a cave in central China support the theory that the ancestors of modern humans began migrating out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years earlier than once thought. Scientists believe the remains may belong to a species called Homo habilis, a precursor of Homo erectus...
Meanwhile, Louis's scientific and activist legacy is carried on by son Richard and daughter-in-law Meave. Among Rich ard's major finds are further evidence of Homo habilis and, with Alan Walker in 1984, "Turkana Boy," a 1.6 million-year-old skeleton of a strapping, adolescent Homo erectus. As director of the Kenya Wildlife Service from 1989 to 1994, Richard revitalized the country's national parks and deterred poachers, but he made political enemies in the process. As combative and tough as his father, he has survived a kidney transplant and the loss of both legs below...
...members of the species Australopithecus afarensis were the oldest known members of the human family. No more: at 4.4 million years of age, the newly unearthed Australopithecus ramidus is the closest link yet (no longer missing) to the common ancestor of apes and humans. A second major find: Homo erectus, the first of Lucy's descendants to leave Africa, made that move about 800,000 years earlier than had been thought. Anyone want an obsolete paleontology book, cheap...
...issue of how modern man, Homo sapiens, arose simultaneously in widely separated parts of the world ((SCIENCE, March 13)), it seems obvious that early Homo erectus was actually present-day Homo sapiens all along. Maybe the former wasn't very smart or attractive by today's standards, but we wouldn't be very pretty either if we spent our whole life without a bath or a haircut, lived on the ground, never wore clothes and didn't have health care...
...likely that, within Homo erectus society, people had varying degrees of hairiness and different shapes, sizes and colors, just as they do today. Very possibly, even back then, birds of a feather flocked together. Maybe that is the foundation for the racial characteristics we see today...