SCI/TECH: Ancient Hominid Remains Identified as Earliest Known Member of Human Species

Originally thought to be a younger female, "Toumai", as the newly identified fossils are called, have recently been discovered to be the oldest of all known human fossils. The remains, found in Chad by French archeologist Michel Brunet, may be one of the greatest ancient-human historical discoveries, some scientists say.



As noted in the reference above, many scientists also find this 'discovery' to be inconclusive, saying, in so few words, that the remains were too damaged to allow an accurate conclusion as to whether or not they were human.

As I, or any of the readers, do not have physical access to the fossils, it is difficult to draw a conclusion as to whether or not the remains are genuinely human. Until further testing is conducted, none of us can be certain.

Regardless of human relation, it is exciting to find such ancient fossils. Even if they are not related, we may be able to learn other truths from this ancestor of life.

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Now, I heard that the general concensus was that it did belong to the hominid phylogeny, what was in dispute was whether it was bipedal or not. Just going off of memory here, but the fragments of skull were all they found (no knees, hips, or ankles) and the skull was "distorted" but 3-D images have virtually "un-distorted" the skull. I can't remember if the foramen magnum suggests bipedalism (I think it does), but scientists need more fossils/data/etc, (what's new?)

Good find!

how old is this fossil supposed to be?