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Summary:
The earliest evidence of our human genus-–Homo--was found in Ethiopia.
Full Text:
The earliest evidence of our human genus--Homo--was found in Ethiopia by a team of scientists and students during field research in 2013. The fossil, the left side of a lower jaw with five teeth, has been dated to 2.
8 million years ago, which predates the previously known fossils of the Homo lineage by approximately 400,000 years.