"Jupiter"  wrote in message
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> Our ape-like early relatives may have begun walking upright six
> million years ago, not three or four million as generally believed,
> scientists say.
>
> Recent fossil evidence, they report, suggests that a hominid, the
> size of a chimp, walked upright on two legs in Kenya's Tugen Hills,
> over 6 million years ago --- about 3 million years earlier than
"Lucy,"
> the most famous early biped in our lineage.
>
> http://www.world-science.net/newspg2/040902_bipedfrm.htm

Thanks for the link.  They don't identify this upright walker, but I assume
(not too dangerously?) that it's Orrorin tugenensis.  Is this name still
valid?  (It just seems odd that the article doesn't mention Orrorin, given
the earlier fanfare around the find.)

Regards, Brett Aubrey.

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary
numbers and those who don't."
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