Jim
Bramlett
(22 Sep 2006)
"They found my cousin!!!
(NOT)"
They found my cousin!!! (Just kidding. But this
is what scientists say our ancestors looked like. If you believe it,
they have made a monkey out of you!)
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Scientists uncover skeleton of earliest known child
BY ROB STEIN THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON Fossil hunters have unearthed the fossil skeleton
of a child who died 3.3 million years ago, marking the first time scientists
have discovered the nearly complete remains of a child of an ancient human ancestor.
The child, a girl who was about 3 years old when she perished
in what may have been a flash flood, provides an unprecedented window into human
evolution, in part because she belongs to the same species as “Lucy,”
one of the most famous hominid specimens in paleontology, experts said.
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