"Stunning Fossil Discovery in Ethiopia Rewrites Human Origins" Topic

"Fossils from Ethiopia are reshaping one of the biggest stories in human history. Instead of a neat march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, evidence from the Ledi-Geraru field site points to a much messier and more fascinating reality: several human relatives may have shared the same African landscape at the same time. An international research team studying fossils from the site found evidence that Australopithecus and the earliest known members of Homo lived in the same region between about 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago — and the fossils also point to an Australopithecus species that has not been found anywhere else on Earth…"

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Armand

"Rewrites….history" is certainly on the Top Ten list of Clickbait titles.
But, historians go "Hummmph. Well. Just have to push back the ‘very first' timeline back some years."
Every competent historian or archaeologist knows that the past is incomplete. And that the blanks will occasionally get filled in, or changed.
Who really thinks that their 30 year old history books are Divine Writ? Hmmm? 🙄🤔🍺

Rewrites _pre_history, surely?

What we don't know, far outweighs what we do.

How much of our past lie's buried under gallons and gallons of water? Africa in those regions, just happened not to be and also has environmental conditions conducive for preservation.

I must admit I fail to see a big re-write here – the idea that various hominids co-existed and some went extinct in a continent the size of Africa (and Africa is huge) hardly seems like a jump

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Armand

Every time I see a title like that, I get the image of a room full of panicked white haired professors tearing up 20 year old textbooks.
But, naaahhhh.

Ha!…

Armand