Evolution of humans: the bush of human origins (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, April 25, 2013, 20:08 (4208 days ago) @ David Turell

More on Au. sediba:-http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/04/24/is-australopithecus-sediba-the-most-important-human-ancestor-discovery-ever/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20130425-"Three years ago researchers added a new branch to the human family tree: Australopithecus sediba, a nearly two-million-year-old relative from South Africa. By all accounts it was a dazzling find—two partial skeletons, an adult female and young male, from a site called Malapa just outside Johannesburg. And it has been making headlines regularly since then whenever scientists release results of new studies of the material, as they did earlier this month. Any time human fossils, especially skeletons, are unearthed it's a big deal, because such remains are so incredibly rare. But I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that A. sediba may just be the most important hominin (modern humans and their extinct relatives) discovery yet."