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Roberts and his colleagues are now hoping to dig out

March 7, 2018 by Paul Fletcher

Roberts and his colleagues are now hoping to dig out a more complete set of bones and tools. The team is currently working to understand the conditions, temperature, and temperature ranges of the bones found and how they were transported by human hands. They are also studying other evidence that suggests the ancient world may have adapted to life after about 300,000 years.

Researchers who specialize in paleoanthropology have found other hominins at Ti’s al Ghadah. In the past, scientists have reported that Homo erectus, a hominin at the top of the fossil record, was a member of the genus Bovineus but was extinct in late B.C., around 400,000 years ago.

A team of team members from the University of South Florida and the University of California, Irvine, are investigating and mapping the site for fossils such as the ones found at Ti’s al Ghadah. Credit: Paul E. H. Roberts/MIT.

In a press release, the University of South Florida and the University of California, Irvine say that the research would benefit the study of human evolution. "These paleoanthropological discoveries are important for understanding how the human-caused climate change may have evolved and what happens on a perihelion scale," said Dr. William J. G. Rizzo, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of Professor Paul E. H. Roberts. "These discoveries help us better understand how we evolved from the earliest hunter-gatherers to the present day, and further our understanding of how modern humans and their descendants adapted to modern environments."

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More information: A. Rizzo et al., The Early Human Genome: The Role of Environmental Resources in Geologic Evolution, Science, vol. 304(12), 2008, 923-937.; R. E. Roberts et al., C. M. L. Rizzo et al., H. H. H. Fischbach et al., W. A. H. Wylie, I. R. H. Négott, M. D. Sartori, W. W. G. Roberts, E. J. N. Rizzo, W. W. W. V. D'Eau, V. E. Doolittle, E. J. N. Rizzo, P. J