News in Brief Anthropology

Ancient Homo fossils found in Kenya

Finds add to skeletal diversity of early members of human genus

Fossil teeth from East Africa

ANCIENT MOUTHFUL  Researchers who discovered and analyzed a nearly complete set of 2-million-year-old fossil teeth from a lower jaw suspect that the East African find comes from an early member of the human genus, Homo habilis.

Courtesy of Deming Yang and Fred Grine

By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

ST. LOUIS — Researchers have discovered fossils of three ancient members of the human genus, Homo, in East Africa.