Oldest Hand Found In Africa, Points To Early Homo Erectus

The oldest modern human hand has been found in Africa and it dates the human race to being at least 1.84 million years old, changing scientists thoughts regarding when homo erectus started to walk the earth.

Spanish scientists find fossil hand 1.84 million years old

Spanish scientists found the oldest fossil remains of a hand bone in Tazania’s Olduvai Gorge, a report in the journal Nature Communications said.   The left hand was from an individual six feet tall and indicate that potentially men were not climbing trees to the same degree as monkeys and apes, Manuel...