Human Origins: Australopithecus
The Ancients
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The History of Human Evolution
There are some candidates although because they are so sparse from Ethiopia. It might well be possible that 6 million years ago or something there were multiple experiments in being bipedal but there is a potential ancestor around Ethiopia. The further back you go in time the more difficult becomes not only because we have far fewer fossils but also because these fossils start looking more and more like the last common ancestor with chimpanzees. But I would always warn against connecting the dots. You find three different things and if you line three things up in time then you have a line and it's very tempting that's the history of human evolution.
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