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Scientists say examinations of arm and leg fossils discovered in Africa provide new evidence about a species that could be our earliest known ancestor.
PARIS The earliest known human ancestor walked on two feet as well as climbing through trees around seven million years ago, scientists recently said after studying three limb bones.When the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis was discovered in Chad in 2001, it pushed back the age of the oldest known representative species of humanity by a million years. Nicknamed “Toumai”,