title: Paleoanthropology: how old is the oldest human?
abstract: A 2.8 Ma old mandible unearthed in Ethiopia fills the gap between ape-like australopithecines and representatives of the genus Homo. It pushes the origin of large-brained hominins further back in time and highlights the complexity of the human evolutionary tree.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: hublin@eva.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Jean-Jacques
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Hublin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005580:Fossils; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible / Q000033:anatomy & histology*