Remains Believed to Be of First Pre-Human
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A 6-million-year-old creature that lacked sharp canines for fighting may be the first pre-human to have branched off from the ape line, researchers said.
Fossil remains of the early hominid, named Ardipithecus kadabba, were found in Ethiopia by a team led by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. .
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