Possible human relative, 2 million years old, a ‘snapshot of evolution in action’
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/09/possible-human-relative-2-million-years.html
He was built to climb, and yet he strode upright.
His arms hung low like an orangutan's. Yet with his long thumbs and curved fingers he could grasp sticks and rocks like a man.
His brain was not much larger than a chimpanzee's. Yet his widened pelvis implied his kind gave birth to children with much bigger brains.
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