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I think that the most important hominid was homo Australopithecus afarensis. I think that this is most important because if no one had found Lucy then I think that the other hominid's wouldn't have been found. I think that Lucy was the most important hominid found because she was the first of the kind. I also think she is the most important because she like started all the hominid stuff. She also gave us information on how the first hominids lived and what they did.

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I think that the most important hominid was homo Australopithecus afarensis. I think that this is the most important because

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Archaeologists have unearthed 300,000-year-old fossilized bones of early humans - the oldest remains of Homo sapiens yet discovered, two new studies report. The ancient bones contain a mix of modern and primitive features that hint at an early, and previously unknown, phase of our species's evolution.

On the family tree of human relatives, collectively known as hominins, our ancestors split from the Neanderthal branch more than 500,000 years ago. Fossils that looked like modern humans started showing up in East Africa about 200,000 years ago. But when exactly modern humans evolved from our most recent ancestor, probably Homo heidelbergensis, is a mystery. Now, two new studies published today in the journal Nature fill in some of those missing millennia, and suggest that hominins were well on their way to looking like modern-day humans about 300,000 years ago.

The fossils come from an archaeological site in Morocco, called Jebel Irhoud. Hominin bones were first pulled out of the ground there in the 1960s, and were dated to about 40,000 years ago. But the archaeologists were sloppy, and experts began to suspect that date was very wrong. So, in 2004, the site reopened and over the next seven years, archaeologists unearthed more hominin remains, including parts of skulls and jaw bones. They also found animal bones that had been butchered and possibly cooked, and stone tools that had been burned at some point - all in the same layer of dirt. That's key: being in the same layer means these finds were all approximately the same age.

The stone tools were a lucky find, because they gave the researchers - led by Jean-Jacques Hublin and Shannon McPherron at the Max Planck Institute in Germany - a chance to date that layer precisely. By measuring how many electrons accumulated in the tools over millennia, the researchers dated the layer and the hominin bones within it to about 315,000 years ago.

From the skull fragments, the researchers virtually reconstructed the faces of the ancient humans who had once lived at the site. Their features were small, and their faces were tucked underneath the brain case, rather than jutting out in front. "The face is the face of somebody you could cross in the metro," Hublin told Michael Greshko in National Geographic. But the brain case was more primitive - flatter and longer instead of high and round, like ours. That's why Hublin and his colleagues think the ancient denizens of Jebel Irhoud were an early evolutionary phase of Homo sapiens - somewhere on the developmental path between Homo heidelbergensis and us.

The two authors of an analysis published alongside the study agree with this assessment. But, the findings haven't been met with universal approval. Paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told Greshko that these new studies "really aren't adding anything new except the date." Hawks added that he doesn't think the findings warrant creating a new category of "early modern humans" to describe the mix of primitive and modern traits. But regardless of what we call these ancient relatives of ours, these new findings give us a better idea of how we became who we are today.

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Archaeologists unearth the oldest Homo sapiens ever discovered

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Archaeologists have unearthed 300,000-year-old fossilized bones of early humans - the oldest remains of Homo sapiens yet discovered, two new studies report. The ancient bones contain a mix of modern and primitive features that hint at an early, and previously unknown, phase of our species's evolution.

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Homo Sapien Sapien nicknamed doubly wise man was found in a cave in 1879. They were found by 8-year old Maria and her father. These hominids were believed to live from 35,000 to 12,000 B.C.E.

They were not well adapted to the cold and had large brains. They looked more like us than the neanderthals. They were able to survive because of the weapons and tools they had. They were also the first to make tools and do art.

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Archaeologists have unearthed 300,000-year-old fossilized bones of early humans - the oldest remains of Homo sapiens yet discovered, two new studies report. The ancient bones contain a mix of modern and primitive features that hint at an early, and previously unknown, phase of our species's evolution.

On the family tree of human relatives, collectively known as hominins, our ancestors split from the Neanderthal branch more than 500,000 years ago. Fossils that looked like modern humans started showing up in East Africa about 200,000 years ago. But when exactly modern humans evolved from our most recent ancestor, probably Homo heidelbergensis, is a mystery. Now, two new studies published today in the journal Nature fill in some of those missing millennia, and suggest that hominins were well on their way to looking like modern-day humans about 300,000 years ago.

The fossils come from an archaeological site in Morocco, called Jebel Irhoud. Hominin bones were first pulled out of the ground there in the 1960s, and were dated to about 40,000 years ago. But the archaeologists were sloppy, and experts began to suspect that date was very wrong. So, in 2004, the site reopened and over the next seven years, archaeologists unearthed more hominin remains, including parts of skulls and jaw bones. They also found animal bones that had been butchered and possibly cooked, and stone tools that had been burned at some point - all in the same layer of dirt. That's key: being in the same layer means these finds were all approximately the same age.

The stone tools were a lucky find, because they gave the researchers - led by Jean-Jacques Hublin and Shannon McPherron at the Max Planck Institute in Germany - a chance to date that layer precisely. By measuring how many electrons accumulated in the tools over millennia, the researchers dated the layer and the hominin bones within it to about 315,000 years ago.

From the skull fragments, the researchers virtually reconstructed the faces of the ancient humans who had once lived at the site. Their features were small, and their faces were tucked underneath the brain case, rather than jutting out in front. "The face is the face of somebody you could cross in the metro," Hublin told Michael Greshko in National Geographic. But the brain case was more primitive - flatter and longer instead of high and round, like ours. That's why Hublin and his colleagues think the ancient denizens of Jebel Irhoud were an early evolutionary phase of Homo sapiens - somewhere on the developmental path between Homo heidelbergensis and us.

The two authors of an analysis published alongside the study agree with this assessment. But, the findings haven't been met with universal approval. Paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told Greshko that these new studies "really aren't adding anything new except the date." Hawks added that he doesn't think the findings warrant creating a new category of "early modern humans" to describe the mix of primitive and modern traits. But regardless of what we call these ancient relatives of ours, these new findings give us a better idea of how we became who we are today.

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Archaeologists unearth the oldest Homo sapiens ever discovered

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Archaeologists have unearthed 300,000-year-old fossilized bones of early humans - the oldest remains of Homo sapiens yet discovered, two new studies report. The ancient bones contain a mix of modern and primitive features that hint at an early, and previously unknown, phase of our species's evolution.

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Homo Sapiens(wise man) nicknamed neanderthal was found in Germany's Neander Valley by some mine workers in 1856. They were believed to live anytime from 200,000 to 28,000 B.C.E. They lived in Africa, Europe, and parts of western Asia.

They were 5 to 6 feet tall and had very thick bones. They also had a ridge above their eyes. They were well adapted to the cold. They were also the first hominids to hunt in groups.

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Homo Erectus nicknamed upright man was found off the southern coast of Asia in 1891. They were found by Eugent Dubois and where believed to live anytime from 1.8 million years ago to 200,00 B.C.E.

They were 5 and 1/2 feet tall and they looked even more like modern humans. Their foreheads were also smoother. They were the first of the hominids to stand up straight.

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Homo Habilis nicknamed Handy man was found in Africa by Louis and Mary Leakey. They are believed to love anywhere from 1.5 million to 2 million years ago.

They also walked on 2 feet but they were more human like. They had twice the brain size of Lucy's. They were also taller than Lucy. These hominids were the first to use and make tools.

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http://study.com/academy/lesson/australophithecus-definition-characteristics-evolution.html

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/09/Lucys_Legacy_The_Quest_for_Human_Origins Professor Donald Johanson, the paleoanthropologist responsible for unearthing the first known remains of Australopithecus afarensis, describes how his discovery ended up with the name "Lucy." Johanson explains that what started out as an off-the-cuff suggestion, ended up securing the fossil a place in popular culture.

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A Australopithecus hominid such as Lucy lived anytime from 4 million to 3 million B.C.E. This hominid was found in Africa in 1974 by a man named Donald Johanson. Lucy was 3 feet tall.

Lucy was short compared to most humans. She also had a mix of ape and human features, she had long arms and she had a large head. She was the first bipedal creature. Biped means that she walked on 2 feet.