Tag: Hominin
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Nutcracker Man Jaw Found in Ethiopia Hominin Origins
Unearthing a 2.6 Million-Year-Old Jaw in an Unexpected Place In a surprising turn for paleoanthropology, fragments of a 2.6 million-year-old fossil jaw have been uncovered in northeastern Ethiopia. The specimen, attributed to an extinct bipedal hominin often called Nutcracker Man, is challenging long-held assumptions about how early human evolution unfolded across the African continent. While…
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Paranthropus Could Have Invented Stone Tools Long Before Homo
Rewriting the Timeline of Tool Use in Hominin Evolution For decades, the popular narrative of human evolution painted tool-making as a defining hallmark of the genus Homo. A series of recent discoveries, however, is challenging that story. Scientists report that Paranthropus—an early hominin genus known for its robust skull and powerful jaws—may have used and…