New Fossil May Trim Branches of Human Evolution
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Writing in Science, researchers say a 1.8 million-year-old skull found in Dmanisi, Georgia indicates that early humans may have evolved from a single lineage rather than from multiple species. Anthropologist Adam Van Arsdale tells us what this could mean for the way we view human evolution.
Adam Van Arsdale is an assistant professor in archaeology at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Alexa Lim was a senior producer for Science Friday. Her favorite stories involve space, sound, and strange animal discoveries.