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Oldest bipedal ancestor fossil found in Ethiopia
New York Times reports fossils from the Middle Awash Valley in the Afar desert date to about four million years ago, likely Australopithecus afarensis. The find suggests humans walked upright long before larger brains or tool use, pushing back the timeline of human evolution and informing punctuated equilibrium debates.
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New York Times
NEW York
Ethiopia
University of California
J. Desmond
Clark
Time D. White
University of California At Berkeley
Awash River
Afar
Lucy
White
Althou
Richard Leakey