Australopithecus garhi discovery

Australopithecus garhi

Australopithecus garhi is a 2.5-million-year-old gracile australopithecine species whose fossils were discovered in 1996 by a research team led by Ethiopian paleontologist Berhane Asfaw and Tim White, an American paleontologist. The hominin remains are believed to be a human ancestor species and possibly the direct ancestor to the human genus, Homo.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus garhi
• Asfaw, B., 1999, Australopithecus garhi: A New Species of Early Hominid from Ethiopia, Science, v. 284, p. 629-635