Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

RALEIGH, N.C. Bone-hunters and anthropologists typically guard their fossils as priceless specimens.

MINNEAPOLIS--It’s a great irony of paleoanthropology that for all the insights scientists have been able to glean from the fossil record about our early ancestors, the australopithecines (Lucy and her kin), they have precious little to document the origin of our own genus, Homo. They know that Homo descended from one of those australopithecine species, and that over the course of that transition our ancestors evolved from chimp-size creatures with short legs and small brains into tall humans with long legs and large brains, among other hallmark traits