[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 12/06/2017. Thanks Red Badger. Playing some catchup here.

[Fedora]

“The team says that Little Foot is from a second species, Australopithecus prometheus, which was named back in 1948 from fragmentary fossils. . .By placing the fossils at well over 3 million years old, Clarke is bound to reignite a debate about the age of the find, which has been disputed over the years. Some scientists have given it a far more recent place on the human evolutionary tree.”

[AndyJackson]

For anyone who takes paleoanthropology seriously there is a wonderful book on the discovery of Homo Naledi and more broadly the history of discoveries in the Sterkfontein cave system.