"Little Foot Hominid May be Far Younger Than First Thought" is an article about a recent discovery of an almost complete skeleton that could potentially be much younger than originally estimated. As soon as the discovery occurred many scientist estimated the age to be around 3.7 million years old, older than "Lucy". This discovery started in 1980, when ankle bones were found and then 17 years later the remainder of the skeleton was found. In 2015 scientist kept attempting to figure out how old the skeleton actually was; however, they were never able to determine the exact age. Now scientist have used crystals around the site of the discovery to concluded that "Little Foot" is only 2.8 million years old and might be a complete alternative species in which we evolved from. This article is able to connect back to our foundations unit because this unit is where we learned about the first Neanderthals and the evolution of the entire human species. In this unit, we learned about our oldest relative "Lucy" who was found where the first humans would then be located in the future, Africa.
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