The study of bones has always intrigued me and any time I find a new discovery in that field of work I immediately have to read it. The article begins by describing the parts of a new skeletal head that was found within the past few years. It teeth and jaws resemble that of not only humans but apes as well. It speaks about this species is not the same as previous ones found like Lucy. The researchers found that the species was not only arboreal, which means climbs trees but also terrestrial. It is shown that this species is primitive due to it's ability to have both. Also the feet bones show that when this species did walk, it had an abnormal gait. Some scientists believe this is a descendant of our ansestors but there is one small problem. This bones date back to a little less than 2 million years old which is after the first known homo species evolved. It is very unlikely for a species to be there, deviate into another, and then back to the same species.Therefore the scientist still have a lot of questions left to answer.
This is important to the world not only to us in the US but our whole species on the Earth. If there were more than one species of homo out there how did we evolve to become what we are today? These findings are important when understanding our evolution but also understanding how to survive the future. If we can find out what happened to these species who were similar it will be much easier to predict the outcome of our species.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/35079/title/Human-Ancestors-/
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