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Published online 20 March 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020318-6
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Skull thwarts species-splitters
Ethiopian fossil suggests early humans were one big family.
A one-million-year-old skull unearthed in Ethiopia hints that our long-extinct cousins Homo erectus were a varied and widespread bunch, much like today's humans. The find may undermine previous claims that _H.
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