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Re:Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Ba... by nandemo on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:19AM (#14399454)
How do they know it's an ancestor instead of just a node that has a common ancestor with Homo sapiens?
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Re:Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Ba... by LyndsySimon on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @08:53AM (#14400716)
I don't think they do, and I didn't see a claim in the article that this species is a direct ancestor of homo sapiens - only that we are very closely related and that they were found where we didn't expect them to be.
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