In mid-August, the science journal Nature published UNLV research about a newly discovered species of human ancestors.
A group of scientists traveled to Ethiopia, where they found 13 teeth fossils. Some of them belonged to the genus Homo — yes, the same genus modern humans belong to. But they also found a set of teeth that belonged to a new species of the genus Australopithecus, indicating that both species were present in Africa at the same time a little over 2 million years ago.
We talk to the only Nevada paleoanthropologist at the site of the discovery.
Guest: Brian Villmoare, UNLV associate professor of anthropology
