Discovery of 1.4 million-year-old fossil human hand bone closes human evolution gap

ScienceDaily
Dec 16, 2013, 3:49 pm612 ptsHotTop
Scientists have found a new hand bone from a human ancestor who roamed the earth in East Africa approximately 1.42 million years ago. The discovery of this bone is the earliest evidence of a modern human-like hand, indicating that this anatomical feature existed more than half a million years earlier than…

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