In CBC News today – Fossil skull find challenges theories on human origins:
"Scientists have unearthed an intact skull from a primitive human ancestor that lived as far back as seven million years ago."
"The specimen was unearthed in the windswept Djurab desert of northern Chad, 150 kilometres west of earlier pre-human discoveries. The fossil's age, cranium, jaw fragment and teeth suggest it is the earliest member of the human family, the researchers said."
These types of discoveries fascinate me. We know so much about the past and yet still so little. And a lot of what we do "know" is just plain wrong. Then there are those who wish to keep discoveries of this type in the U.S. a secret. Find a 9300 year-old skeleton and then the Army comes in and confiscates Kennewick Man because it may just destroy a lot of what we think we "know" about the past.
hi i am doing a report on the toumai skull and d2700 skull i was soundering if you could send me an e-mail with information on either i would be very much obliged.