Re: pre - afarensis find?

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In article <3mcrqm$osn@utaipx02.uta.edu>, JRB8947@UTARLG.UTA.EDU (Joni R Beaulieu) writes:
>Not to long ago I read an article in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram about
>another fossil found in the Afar Triangle that predated A. afarensis.
>Now I can't find the article and have not been able to find references
>in the journals. Has anyone heard of this?
>
>Joni
>UTA Grad Student
>Email: jrb8947.utarlg.uta.edu
>

That was A.ramidus, dated 4.4mya. They don't have alot of pieces of it (in
particular, I don't feel they have enough to establish bipedalism), but they
are still excavating over there. Tim White & co. found and named it. It
was in both Science & Nature, but I can't remember which issues off-hand.
Caroline R. Cooper
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