Australopithecine and Paranthropid are early Hominins
There is a gap in the "fossil hominin record for the crucial period before 4.2 million years ago when Australopithecus anamensis appeared." Explain the gap and what new discoveries are helping fill in the missing information.
Six to eight million years ago, human diverged from an African ape(also ancestral to chimpanzees) and went on to evolve distinctive, humanlike characteristics.
For years,there has been a gap in the fossil record of human evolution.However in 2013,scientists announced the discovery of a tone of fossils(new fossil reveals the face of 'Lucy' ancestors who lived 4.2 million years ago) in South Africa that may help fill the gaps and offer new insight into the evolution of humans.
The 4.2 million-year-old fossil discovered in northeastern Ethiopia helped, filling in the gaps of how human ancestors made the gaint leap from one species to another.
As the fossil record become more complete,the gaps between major life form has being filled by newly-discovered fossil reveals.
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