Anthropologists are speculating about the age of humankind:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9476413/Skull-bone-reveals-human-ancestor-Home-erectus-lived-2-MILLION-years-ago.html?ito=push-notification&ci=129927&si=14556679&ai=9476413
`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Skull bone reveals human ancestor Home erectus lived 2 MILLION years ago making it the oldest specimen on record
- Experts reexamined a skull bone of a Home erectus found in 1974 in Kenya
- It was said to have belonged to a younger hominid, but speculations were wrong
- A new study dated rocks in the area where the skull fragment was discovered
- This led researchers to conclude that the bone fragment is 2 million years old
- This is also the oldest Homo erectus specimen to be discovered to date
- The previous, uncovered in Georgia, dates back to some 1.78 million years
By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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When KNM-ER 2598 was first analyzed, some experts speculated it may have derived from a younger Homo erectus. The bone is ‘a thick hominin cranial fragment preserving much of the central occipital bone