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New hominin fossils recovered from the Ledi-Geraru Research Project area in the Afar region of Ethiopia suggest the presence of early Homo at 2.78 and 2.59 million years ago and a previously unknown species of Australopithecus at 2.63 million years ago. Forensic facial reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis. Image credit: Cicero Moraes / CC BY-SA 3.0. The time interval between about …

Villmoare, B. et al. Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia. Science 347, 1352–1355 (2015). ADS  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Plummer, T. W. et al. Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus. Science 379, 561–566 (2023). ADS  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Asfaw, B. et al. Australopithecus garhi: a new species of early …