Australopithecus sediba en 1.977 Ma y las implicaciones para los orígenes del género Homo Homo

Robyn Pickering1, Paul H G M Dirks, Zubair Jinnah

  • 1School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia. r.pickering@unimelb.edu.au

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 10, 2011
PubMed
Resumen

Una nueva datación de los sedimentos de las cuevas en Malapa revela que los fósiles de Australopithecus sediba tienen 1.977 millones de años. Este hallazgo es anterior a las primeras evidencias de Homo en África, impactando las líneas de tiempo de la evolución humana.

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