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Tango0124 May 2026 2:06 p.m. PST

"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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