REMAINS of the earliest human-like animal yet found suggest that hominids began walking upright two million years earlier than previously thought.
Last week, two collaborating groups of researchers, a French group led by Brigitte Senut of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and Martin Pickford of the Collège de France, and a local group from the Community Museums of Kenya announced that they had discovered the remains of a six-million-year-old creature in Africa’s Rift Valley dubbed “Millennium Ancestor”. It is 1.5 million years older than previous hominid finds.
“It’s not completely human, but definitely nothing like an ape,” Senut told ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ. “It’s really something.” The creature’s teeth and…
