This suggests that lucys kind is probably a branch of anamensis, and, if thats the case, other species of advanced apes living at the time might also have their own branches. Researchers say that this means there are now many more contenders, as well as lucy, to lay claim to be the ancestor to the very first humans to have walked the earth. Pallab ghosh, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather heres darren bett. Still quite warm across the south east in the next few days with some sunshine. Further north and west cooler and wetter with all this cloud coming in from the atlantic weve seen cloud increasing with showers particularly across scotland. Not so many across the borders but a few here later in the day. Certainly more cloud coming into england and wales although most places dry with a bit of sunshine. 0ne places dry with a bit of sunshine. One or two showers towards the west. They showers affecting Northern Ireland with wetter weather across western scotland where it is windy in
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Across the west. We will see a bit of patchy cloud in scotland, but the temperatures will continue climb and they will be widely into the mid to high 20s. Maybe a shower into wales and Northern Ireland later, but then it is all change, can you believe it, thursday night into the early hours of friday morning. A cold front is going to bring some showery outbreaks of rain, some of it quite heavy into the far north of scotland. And it will linger over there for much of friday, im afraid. So some wet weather for scotland. Not too bad for england and wales. A more breezy day, a south westerly flow. Sunny spells and a few scattered, sharp showers, but temperatures will still be on the one side, particularly if you keep the sunshine. And as we go into the weekend, that cooler, more unsettled theme is back, unfortunately. Unsettled theme is back, unfortunatel. ,. , unfortunately. That is tonightsbbc news at six, unfortunately. That is tonightsbbc news at six, but unfortunately. That is tonight