Human Ancestors Used Their Hands Just as Modern Humans

Human ancestors used their hands just as modern humans 3 million years ago, according to anthropologists from the University of Kent, working with researchers from University College London, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) and the Vienna University of Technology (Austria). The research shows that Australopithecus africanus, a 3-2 million-year-old species from South Africa traditionally considered not to have engaged in ...

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