re: #127 GlutenFreeJesus

News on the evolutionary front. It seems Mrs. Ples is a million years older than thought which would complicate our evolutionary tree, having existed during the same time period as Lucy. Perhaps this explains MTG’s existence.

bbc.com

Ooh. Interesting!

John Hawks, Paleoanthropology Prof, UW-Madison, has a link to the paper here & it’s actually not behind a paywall. Time to go read it!

A stunning proposal for revision of the age of the Sterkfontein Australopithecus africanus fossils: Instead of 2.6–2.1 million, they may be 3.7–3.3 million years old. This would reconfigure the role of South Africa in early hominin evolution. https://t.co/TOBP905QJG pic.twitter.com/wAArQKdx8G

— John Hawks (@johnhawks) June 28, 2022