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2015      A newly discovered "pinkie" is about 2 million years old

 

  • Sometimes, a bone is just a bone. Other times, it’s the earliest modern human-like hand bone, as a group of researchers recently discovered — one that could change how anthropologists see human evolution. After excavating a bone at a Tanzanian dig in 2012, the researchers are reporting that it is a pinkie finger that’s at least 1.84 million years old,  writes ScienceNews’ Bruce Bower.