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Re:New human-like species discovered by guelo on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:27PM (#10200668)
I was kind of surprised that they haven't aged the finding yet. The 3 million years number is being thrown around with zero evidence.
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Re:New human-like species discovered by dogma1138 on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:13PM (#10201820)
You need organic material to date which in many cases might not exist with the find.

Other than that you can perform rough estimates based on the soil it was found in, but those in many cases might be off by quite a bit.

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