'First human' discovered in Ethiopia

BBC ^ | 4 March 2015 | Pallab Ghosh

[moose07]

The new jawbone: its teeth are smaller than those of other human relatives

Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans.

The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged.

The discovery in Ethiopia suggests climate change spurred the transition from tree dweller to upright walker.

The head of the research team told BBC News that the find gives the first insight into "the most important transitions in human evolution".

Prof Brian Villmoare of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas said the discovery makes a clear link between an iconic 3.2 million-year-old hominin (human-like primate) discovered in the same area in 1974, called "Lucy".

Could Lucy's kind - which belonged to the species Australopithecus afarensis - have evolved into the very first primitive humans?

"That's what we are arguing," said Prof Villmoare.

But the fossil record between the time period when Lucy and her kin were alive and the emergence of Homo erectus (with its relatively large brain and humanlike body proportions) two million years ago is sparse.

The 2.8 million-year-old lower jawbone was found in the Ledi-Geraru research area, Afar Regional State, by Ethiopian student Chalachew Seyoum. He told BBC News that he was "stunned" when he saw the fossil.

[rjsimmon]

And how do they know it is 2.8 MYO? It’s watch had stopped...

[rjsimmon]

The discovery in Ethiopia suggests climate change spurred the transition from tree dweller to upright walker.

Paging Al Gore... Al, white courtesy phone, please. Climate Change is now the reason for mankind...

[Jimmy Valentine]

It was found in Ferguson Ethiopia

[CMB_polarization]

Good looking teeth.

[moose07]

From the Part-number printed on it....:)

[CMB_polarization]

What’s the error range on that date?

[moose07]

It doesn’t say.

[b4its2late]

Looks like #3 might be an implant.

[PJ-Comix]

So this was the feller who first spotted the Black Monolith.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

Total BS. And what REALLY bugs me is that University of Nevada in Las Vegas is a TAXPAYER-SUPPORTED college! How come tax money can be used to promote the false religion of evolutionism, but not ONE DIME can be used to teach the truth as revealed in Genesis by the living God?

I DO NOT want my tax dollars to fund this kind of “research”!

[blueunicorn6]

SSDD

Same S**t Different Decade

I’ve seen older teeth in a glass at the nursing home.

[chajin]

And as he left this mortal coil so many aeons ago, his parting word was, “Abyssinia...”

[moose07]

LOL..Yeah! :)

[Zeppo]

Helen Thomas sighting?

[Drew68]

Cool. Now I can claim “African-American” race on job and school applications.

[mountainlion]

Some “Scientists” call primate that walks on two legs as “human”. 6 teeth this time over the one tooth they manufactured the non existent Nebraska man but let us see more than that to come to any major conclusions.

[moose07]

I agree, the "whole pot" reconstruction from the tiny shard is so irritating when it come to Human remains.

[Zeneta]

They will take this “piece” of a jaw bone and “construct” an entire skull, skeleton, muscle, skin, skin tone hair etc, and put it on display.

It will be displayed in the “environment” that helps complete the narrative they want to achieve.

[Zeneta]

I didn’t mean to step on your post.

I must have been typing mine.