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> Erectus is even older than previously thought:
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> https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/the-earliest-known-skull-of-homo-erectus?utm_source=Cosmos+-+Master+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=0d5f6fd56a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-0d5f6fd56a-180344213&mc_cid=0d5f6fd56a&mc_eid=b072569e0b
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> "The two-million-year-old fossil – believed to be of a child just two or three years old – was reconstructed from more than 150 fragments excavated over five years from the Drimolen cave system north of Johannesburg in South Africa.
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> "It suggests that Homo erectus existed 100,000 to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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> "The researchers also uncovered the oldest known skull of the species Paranthropus, and their analysis reveals that in fact three hominin genera – Australopithecus being the third – were living as contemporaries in the area two million years ago.
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> "Combined with other evidence, this leads them to argue that the site reflects a period of transition in southern Africa driven by climatic variability, with endemic species such as Australopithecus going extinct, while new migrants – Homo and Paranthropus – moved in.
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> "According to La Trobe’s Andy Herries, who led the research, we can now say that Homo erectus shared the landscape with two other types of humans – a point that has been much debated.
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> “'This suggests that one of these other human species, Australopithecus sediba, may not have been the direct ancestor of Homo erectus, or us, as previously hypothesised,” he says."
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> Comment:  Another new find that supports the idea of a hominin/homo evolutionary explosion