Revelations from 17-million-year-old ape teeth could lead to new insights on early human evolution
- Written by: Tanya M. Smith, Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
Fossilised jaws from the 17 million-year-old Kenyan ape _Afropithecus turkanensis_.Tanya M. Smith/National Museums of Kenya, Author providedThe timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour of our close primate relatives.
Some scientists...