Teeth that shake up human evolution: Ethiopian fossils shed light on ancestors

Teeth that shake up human evolution: Ethiopian fossils shed light on ancestors

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known member of the genus Homo to which our own species belongs. Story by Clémence