Word: hadar
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...PRODUCT] Hadar, 12 days old at time of divorce filing...
Chances are that if the answer exists, it is waiting in Hadar. Kimbel and his colleagues realized several years ago that it was an ideal place to look for clues to humanity's immediate family because Lucy's bones didn't come from the most recent rocks in the area. By combing through younger rocks, the scientists hoped to uncover clues to what came later. The newly announced jawbone is among the first fruits of that labor, but it probably won't be the last...
...arid badlands of northern Ethiopia's Hadar region have long been a fossil-hunter's paradise. It was there, two decades ago, that paleontologists unearthed the celebrated Lucy, a primitive ancestor of modern humans dating back more than 3 million years. On this trip, though, an international team of scientists was on the trail of something less ancient but much more mysterious. Somewhere between 2 million and 3 million years ago, experts believe, Lucy's descendants had evolved into true humans. But despite decades of searching, scientists had yet to find a single well-dated fossil that showed...
...they have. And there's plenty of evidence of climate change at the Hadar site. Near the jaw and tools, the team recovered fossils of grazing antelopes, indicative of an open, fairly grassy habitat, rather than forest-dwelling species like impala, which were so prevalent in Lucy's time...