The Homo genus is nearly half a million years older than we thought

"One of paleoanthropology’s main research goals has been to fiddle the temporal and evolutionary gap between these early and later phenomena," William Kimbel, an Arizona State University professor and one of the lead fossil analysts, said during a conference call discussing the findings. The new fossil doesn't provide one simple answer, but it does start to detail the transition from Australopithecus fossils with small brains and ape-like jaws, such as Lucy, and members of the Homo genus that eventually led to modern humans. The other, a paper from Penn State University, describes the area that the fossil was found in and what the landscape was probably like when this inhabitant lived there.

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