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Homo erectus arrived in southern Africa 200,000 years earlier

So, a newly described adult fossil from South Africa’s Drimolen site strengthens the evidence that Homo erectus lived in the region about 2 million years ago. That makes this evidence around 200,000 years older than adult fossils of the species found elsewhere. The same collection reveals that Paranthropus robustus gradually developed larger teeth and stronger chewing muscles as it adapted to changing conditions. And here’s the fascinating part: the fossils offer a rare glimpse of two human relatives evolving in different ways while sharing the same landscape.
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