Tag: Nutcracker Man
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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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2.6 Million-Year-Old Jaw of ’Nutcracker Man’ Found in Unexpected Place Reshapes Early Human Evolution
Introduction: A jaw that rewrites a chapter A discovery in northeastern Ethiopia is offering a fresh glimpse into how early humans navigated Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago. Fragmentary remains of a 2.6 million-year-old fossil jaw, linked to the famed Nutcracker Man, are prompting researchers to rethink where and how our ancient relatives traveled…