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Louis Leakey: The Father of Hominid Hunting | Science | Smithsonian  Jun 13, 2012 ... Louis Leakey popularized the study of human evolution and ... the first fossil skull of the earliest known ape, the 18-million-year-old ... while working in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, found a hominid bone. ... Zinj, eventually dated to 1.75 million years ago, was the first australopithecine found ... Like this article?
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Olduvai Gorge - Wikipedia  Homo habilis, probably the first early human species, occupied Olduvai Gorge approximately 1.9 million years ago (mya); then came a contemporary...
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Olduvai Gorge: Oldest Evidence of Mankind's Evolution - Live Science  Oct 16, 2013 ... Olduvai Gorge is a rich archaeological site in Tanzania where evidence of the first humans has been found. ... She discovered fossilized parts of a skull and upper teeth of a type of hominin that had not been previously identified. Over the ... They dated the discovery as having lived 1.75 million years ago.
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Lucy and the Leakeys | 6.0How Our Ancestors Evolved | 6. Early ...  The first early human fossil bones were found in Europe  Neanderthals in ... years ago an earthquake drained the lake; after that, the river cut a deep gorge ... In 1959 Mary discovered a skull that dated at 1.75 million years old, a find ... She lived at Olduvai long enough to see leopards and rhinos dwindle to near extinction.
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Leakey family discovers human ancestors - PBS  photo. Leakey family discovers human ancestors 1959. The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has a geology that fossil-hunters love. ... That day, she found fossilized parts of the upper teeth and skull of a hominid no one ... They suggested that it lived 1.75 million years agomaking it by far the oldest hominid yet found.
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Famed Lucy Fossils Discovered in Ethiopia, 40 Years Ago - History ...  Nov 24, 2014 ... On November 24, 1974, scientists in Africa unearthed the skeleton of one of humanity's oldest ancestors, a pint-sized Australopithecus they nicknamed Lucy. ... the partial remains of a previously unknown species of ape-like hominid. ... was eventually classified as a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus...
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Evolution -- Transitional Hominids  An example of one of their products may be seen below at Lucy's skull. ... that belonged to 3.2-million-year-old Lucy, then the oldest known human ancestor.
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Early Hominin Evolution: Discovery of Early Hominids  The primate fossil record for this crucial transitional period leading to ... By 3 million years ago, they were common in both East and South Africa. .... Early hominin fossils from Olduvai Gorge are known mostly as a result of the many expeditions ... later ones were found in Ethiopia since 1974, but none is as complete as Lucy.
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Anthropologists say that a 1.8-million-year-old hominid skull ...  "This is important to understanding human evolution."" .... Homo rudolfensis skull (KNM ER 1470) reconstruction displayed at Museum of Man, San Diego.
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HOMO ERECTUS AND THEORIES AND CONTROVERSIES ABOUT ...  Now scientists working in China and elsewhere in Asia are challenging these theories. The discovery of 1.7-million-year-old hominid fossils in Georgia that were...
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Homo erectus - PBS  Homo erectus, unlike H. habilis and all of the Australopithecus species, ranged far beyond ... Date of discovery: 1999 ... of a 9- to 12-year-old boy is one of the oldest-known specimens of H. erectus. ... of Java indicates that the species lived in Asia as many as 1.6 million years ago. ... Estimated age: 500,000 to 300,000 years
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Museum's T. Rex Roars Back in New Stance - The New York Times  Jun 16, 2008 ... The Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Tyrannosaurus rex goes back on display ... The holotype is the first specimen of its kind to be scientifically identified and to ... to its massive skull  which is now the stance of the Carnegie's dinosaur. ... The Carnegie's T. rex was found in 1902 in Hell Creek, Mont.,...
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New horned dinosaur species discovered in Montana by amateur  May 18, 2016 ... The bones unearthed near Winifred, Montana represent a previously-unknown species of dinosaur that lived 76 million years ago. It's scientific...
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Australopithecus africanus | The Smithsonian Institution's Human ...  Australopithecus africanus lived about 3.3 to 2.1 million years ago. ... The Taung child, found in 1924, was the first to establish that early fossil humans ... keratic = horn) in the 1940s and 1950s because remains of this species were found ... 1980s, other scientists began to recognize that predators such as lions, leopards,...
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Lucy the Hominid - Crystalinks  As they looked further, more and more bones were found, including a jaw, arm bone, ... The skeleton A.L. 444-2 was nicknamed Lucy, after the Beatles song "Lucy in the ... Lucy remains a treasure among anthropologists studying Human origins. .... The 3.2 million-year-old hominin was found on a treed flood plain, making a...
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Selam - three million year old ape-girl skeleton - Age of the Sage  ... to a three million year old ape-girl fossil skeleton found in Ethiopian paleontology studies. ... said she ranks as one of the most important hominin fossils on record. ... specimen of the same species discovered just 4km (2.5 miles) away in 1974. ... "It's a remarkable and rewarding discovery," Dr Johanson told The Times.
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Iceman - National Geographic Magazine  Five thousand years later, the Neolithic hunter we call the Iceman would still bear ... and into the nearby mountains, where fate would finally catch up with him. Since hikers discovered his mummified corpse in 1991 in a rocky hollow high in ... and times of the Iceman (or "tzi"), the oldest intact member of the human family.
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Earliest Inhabitants - Samless Adventure  Northern Tanzania (specifically Oldupai Gorge) is known as the Cradle of ... have found hundreds of fossilized bones and stone tools in this area dating ... at 2.3 million to 1.2 million years ago; Homo erectusdated at 1.89 million to ... Fossils more than one million years old have been found in Europe and the Far East.
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Famed Lucy Fossils Discovered in Ethiopia, 40 Years Ago - History ...  Nov 24, 2014 ... On November 24, 1974, scientists in Africa unearthed the skeleton of one ... When an American graduate student named Tom Gray announced he .... Lucy's skull at an Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, museum on May 7, 2013. ... Despite these more recent breakthroughs, Lucy still stands as perhaps the most famous...
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Full text of "Racial Contours (1965)" - Internet Archive  Nor in the man-made psychosocial field is there any positive assurance of ..... as Negroid students from the African nations have discovered for themselves. .... needs of their multi-racial society American anthropologists tend to minimize racial ...... In 1959 a skull was uncovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika, complete...
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Sahelanthropus - Wikipedia  Sahelanthropus tchadensis is an extinct homininae species that is dated to about 7 million ... Human-like .... Sahelanthropus tchadensis may have walked on two legs. ... In particular, if Touma is indeed a direct human ancestor, then its facial ... the suid Nyanzachoerus syrticus  suggests an age of more than 6 million years,...