Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside The Very Apes They Evolved From

Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside The Very Apes They Evolved From

Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside The Very Apes They Evolved From Skull of a female A africanus – credit, Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved from. The discovery centers around teeth: that of a member of the genus  Homo, of which we are a part, found next to the tooth of Australopithecus, the last in a line of apes that became humans. Teeth from ancient human ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Region – credit, Amy Rector / Virginia Commonwealth University The team of paleontologists who found the teeth are following protocol and not inferring anything about how the two species interacted, but the fact is that the  Homo  tooth was the older of the two, showing that human evolution wasn’t linear. “This new research shows that the image many of us have in our minds of an ape to a Neanderthal to a modern human is not correct—evolution doesn’t work like that,” Kaye Ree…