Specimens discovered in South Africa 10 years ago represent the long-sought mysterious missing link in our knowledge of human evolution, scientists have concluded in a new research study. sediba and also on a major transition in hominin evolution,” wrote lead researcher Scott Williams of New York University. The remains of Australopithecus sediba were found by a 9-year-old boy who stopped to look at a rock he had tripped over while walking his dog. “Imagine for a moment that Matthew stumbled over the rock and continued following his dog without noticing the fossil,” the scientists wrote in their study. sediba, but those fossils would still be there, still encased in calcified clastic sediments, still waiting to be discovered.”

Source: Huffington Post January 21, 2019 10:30 UTC