Project pushes back the hominid timeline in Africa by more than 10M years

Re:Project pushes back the hominid timeline in Africa by mor... by jimmytucson on Friday April 14, 2023 @12:43PM (#35571587)

> first humans (5mya)

This might be a little early - Wikipedia says the genus Homo emerged from Australopithecus around 3.3 Ma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo).

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Re:Project pushes back the hominid timeline in Africa by mor... by culi on Saturday April 15, 2023 @10:32AM (#35580953)

Thanks, I'll look more into it. This is an area of active debate and research. Estimates have gone as far back as 7 Ma (e.g. this 2002 NYTimes article[0] says 5-7 Ma). Even the origins of Homo sapiens gets pushed around every other year (e.g. [1]).

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/science/when-humans-becam...

[1] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/7/15745714/nat...

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