A new evolutionary cousin found!

[Teddiursa of the Sky]

New fossils recast a flat-faced oddity as a star species in the first chapter of the human story—perhaps even as our oldest known truly human ancestor.

At the least, the fossils confirm that at least three different human species inhabited the same Kenyan neighborhood at the dawn of humanity, according to a new study led by paleontologists Meave and Louise Leakey...

An entirely new hominid skull (both lower and upper jaw) has been discovered, dated to about 1.7 to 2 million years ago. A great year for science so far!

[Typhlosion Explosion]

The recreation they put together definitely resembles some kind of orangutan/ape creature. This could lead to new evidence on evolution.

[mintjelly]

I love learning new things about human evolution.
Hopefully this will provide more clues as to how humans evolved.