The results of bone jawbone and teeth discovered in Ethiopia indicate that they come pre-3,5- 3,3 million years old and shows that at that time coexisted with each other several species of hominid (understood as the people of the species Homo sapiens and all ancestors). The study was published in the prestigious scientific weekly magazine “Nature”.
Discovered the remains are similar to “Lucy”, the famous skeleton of the species Australopithecus afarensis , which was found in 1974. However, clear differences in the construction of the shape of the jaw and teeth suggest that this time we are dealing with a completely new species. All this means that our well-known ancestor, Australopithecus Lucy from the group, he was not alone. At the time, the African continent inhabited by several different species of early man.
The remains found in the desert of central Ethiopia, only a few dozen kilometers from where Lucy was discovered. The name of the new species Australopithecus deyiremeda , derives from the local Afar language and means “close relative”, a species closely related to all later hominids – explain explorer.
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