Meet our long-lost relative

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3157-3158, 2017, pág. 32
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The 21St century has so far been a golden age of hominin discovery. New species like the 7-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis and the 300,000-year-old Homo naledi have added to our understanding of humanity's past. And the finds will keep coming. It doesn't look like we're sampling something that is running out, says John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I think in part there's a greater intensity of exploration right now. There's a good chance that a new species will be revealed in 2018, with rumours swirling of two major finds that could answer many questions. David Begun at the University of Toronto, Canada, wants northerly fossils. In 2017 he studied Graecopithecus, an extinct European ape from 725 million years ago. He claimed it might have been a hominin, meaning Europe was home to early hominins.