The First Humans
The Ancients
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Early Homo - Peranthropus
Lewis and Mary Leakey have been exploring and excavating in Oldeweigort in Tanzania since the 1930s. They found stone tools, they found the old scrap of bone and a lot of animal bones but old scrap ofbone of potentially human ancestors. In 1959 Mary actually found a beautifully preserved skull cranium so the no lower jaw but only the upper part of indeed one of those creatures that we now might call parentipus. The chewing teeth are really double the size or so of what you would see in other human ancestors. So they are a very specialized group that we assume has a diet that is more focused on plant diets type things that need a lot of chewing, a
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