Sentences with phrase «unknown member of the human family»
CALGARY — In 2010 paleoanthropologists announced to great fanfare that they had recovered from a South African cave two partial skeletons of a previously unknown member of the human family that lived nearly two million years ago.
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Bailey notes recent discoveries of far more complete fossil humans from South Africa, representing previously unknown members of the human family — Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi — show evolution mixed and matched modern and archaic traits in unexpected ways in the past.