“Move over, Lucy. And kiss the missing link goodbye.”

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Matt Ruff

Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.

[Via Research Maven]

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