7-Million-Year-Old Fossil Suggests First Steps in Human Evolution
The Dawn of Walking Upright: New Fossil Fuels Debate on Human Ancestry For decades, the identity of our earliest bipedal ancestor – the creature that first abandoned life on all fours – has been a central mystery in paleoanthropology. Now, a groundbreaking re-analysis of 7-million-year-old fossils suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a primate discovered in Chad, may … Read more