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> A recognized early ape-like creature with some later attributes of hominin features:
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> https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/ape-like-face-of-early-human-ancestor-revealed?utm_source=Cosmos+-+Master+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=a9b109dbae-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-a9b109dbae-180344213
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> "The ape-like face of one of our earliest known human ancestors has been revealed for the first time, thanks to the discovery of a nearly complete skull in Ethiopia.
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> "The cranium – the skull minus its lower jaw – belongs to Australopithecus anamensis, and its owner lived in the Afar basin in Ethiopia around 3.8 million years ago.
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> "Australopiths are thought to be the direct ancestors of the early members of our own genus, Homo, which arose with Homo habilis roughly 2.4 million years ago. 
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> "Several Australopith species have been identified. The best-known of these is Australopithecus afarensis, the species that counts Lucy as its famous flag-bearer.
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> "A. anamensis is the oldest member of the Australopiths, yet it is far less well known, in part because of its lacklustre fossil record, consisting of a smattering of limb bones, jaw bones and disembodied teeth.
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>  "Its teeth and upper jaw clearly mark it as a member of A. anamensis, and an accompanying paper date the sediments around the remains as 3.8 million years old, similar in age to other A. anamensis finds. 
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> "The cranium was found in two parts, with the upper jaw cleaved off from the rest of the head. These two pieces fit together perfectly, says Haile-Selassie, and other smaller pieces, including the orbit of one eye, were found near-by.
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> "Together, the fossils give a clear picture of what the face of A. anamensis looked like, and how it fits into the human family tree.
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> "Many of the features of A. anamensis are ape-like. It had a pronounced snout and its brain would have been similar in size to that of a chimpanzee.
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> "But other features are reminiscent of hominin species that lived much later. 
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> "For example, its cheek bones were forward-facing, foreshadowing the flatter faces that developed in Homo habilis and later, in our own species. 
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> "In the popular imagination, human evolution proceeds through a series of species, each one being a more evolved version of the last.
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> “'Most of the time, that’s not really the case,” says Spoor.
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> "Species often represent separate branches on a tree, with the direct ancestors – the branchpoints – leaving no trace. “You hardly ever find the real ancestor of something else,” says Spoor.
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> "But for a long time, A. anamensis was believed to be one of those rare cases of being a direct ancestor to A. afarensis – Lucy.
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> "This new find challenges that text-book perfect example. For a start, the two species overlapped for a period of at least 100,000 years. 
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> “'What's great about the paper is that it challenges this theory about linear evolution between the two species,” says Spoor.
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> "However, Haile-Selassie says the discovery doesn’t rule this out. One population of A. anamensis could have given rise to A. afarensis, while others diverged in a different direction. Without more fossils, it’s hard to know for sure. "
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> Comment: It looks like we came from a bush of pre-hominins and hominins. To me it looks as if God was willing to take lots of time to finally evolve humans, just as these findings show.