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Article: The hominid who ate antelope for dinner.(Australopithecus garhi discovered in Ethiopia)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 3, 1999
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Picture a primitive, meat-and-potatoes guy who leads with his mouth, has huge teeth, breaks things when eating, and possesses the brains of a chimp. No, not Homer Simpson, the idiot father of TV cartoons, but the latest addition to the human family tree.
This newly discovered species walked the then lush countryside of the Horn of Africa 2.5 million years ago and may have been the first hominid (that's us and all our extinct, two-legged ancestors going back at least 4 million years) to use tools to break bones and cut up meat. It may represent "the very first steps toward ourselves, in terms of technology, and in terms of diet," declares Tim White, a University ...