Exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana in Kenya confirm that there were two additional species of our genus – Homo – living alongside our direct human ancestral species, Homo erectus, about 2 million years ago. The KNM-ER 1470 cranium, found in 1972, left, 3D reconstruction of the lower jaw KNM-ER 60000, and the fossil KNM-ER 62000, right. The fossils are now thought to belong to hominin species Homo rudolfensis (© Photo by Fred...
