Little Hominid Suggests Pattern of Evolution
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A tiny pre-human who lived more than 900,000 years ago in what is now Kenya may have been a “short experiment” in evolution, scientists reported in this week’s issue of the journal Nature. The little adult skull was found at a site where the much larger Homo erectus lived, said Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution. Potts thinks the find shows that early humans lived in groups that came together and swapped genes every few thousand years or so before some became extinct.
