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Scientists want to fold Australopithecus into our own genus, rewriting the human family tree

The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close kin and who sits on a separate branch of the family tree. Now a researcher ...
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3.7 million years ago: Did Australopithecus already live in South Africa?

At Sterkfontein in South Africa, a new analysis of sediments from the cave’s Member 4 area dated them to between 3.41 and 3.7 ...
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Australopithecus findings could rewrite how we classify millions of years of human evolution

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ...
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Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Fossils of early ...

In 2008, a nine-year-old spotted a fossil in South Africa: Scientists uncovered a previously unknown branch of human evolution

A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.