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Jaw Fossil in Ethiopia Likely Oldest Ever Found in Human Line

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Scientists working in Ethiopia say they’ve found the earliest known fossil on the ancestral line that led to humans. It’s part of a lower jaw with several teeth, and it’s about 2.8 million years old. Anthropologists say the fossil fills an important gap in the record of human evolution.

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Source: NPR Science – ingested into KQED

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