A recent Kenyan fossil find is challenging theories of human evolution. Two fossils - an upper jaw bone of a Homo habilis and a skull of a Homo erectus -- reveal that the two species lived side by side for half a million years instead of evolving one after the other as previously thought. Join Kojo as we discuss the discovery and its significance to human prehistory.
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2007-08-21/rethinking-human-evolution
Rethinking Human Evolution
Listen Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007 at 1:06 p.m. in Science, SocietyGuests
Rick Potts
Director of the Human Origins Program,
Paleoanthropologist, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Fred Spoor
Professor of Anatomy at the Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology at University College London.
Frank Brown
Professor of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
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