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Missing link between man and apes found
Posted: Saturday, April 3, 2010
A "missing link" between humans and their apelike ancestors has been discovered.
By Richard Gray
April 03, 2010
The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.
Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously-unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been a intermediate stage as ape-men evolved into the first species of advanced humans, Homo habilis.
Full Article : telegraph.co.uk
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