years old through a new dating technique, making the genus Australopithecus as old as afarensis. Given the opposable big toe found on Little Foot, it seems that the specimen was a good climber. It is thought given the night predators of the region that he built a nesting platform at night in the trees in a similar fashion to chimpanzees and gorillas.

Evolution of genus Homo

The earliest documented representative of the genus Homo is the Ledi jaw, which is dated 2.75 - 2.8 million years ago

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