Found Earliest Child

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Found! Earliest Child

• 3.3 Million Year Old Bones Discovered

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Zeresenay Alemseged,Ethiopian Paleoanthropologist
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology (Germany)
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The Bad Lands.
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Gorillas and Chimpanzees
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What do you notice
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The Dikika baby has a mixture of ape and human
characteristics.
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Scapula (shoulder blade) comparisona. Dikika
baby scapula
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Scientists use morphology and protein sequence to
determine evolutionary relationships
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Hemoglobin Amino Acid Homology
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Rhesus Monkey
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Running Evolution.
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Humans