Stone tools helped shape our hands

• Autores: Sara Reardon
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2912, 2013, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 2010 a team led by Fredrick Kyalo Manthi of the National Museums of Kenya discovered an intriguing bone in the north of the country. Carol Ward of the University of Missouri and colleagues identified it as a third metacarpal, the long bone in the palm between the middle finger and the wrist. Isotope dating revealed the bone to be about 1.4 million years old that is likely to have belonged to Homo erectus