Happily, we just don't know.

This article from the NY Times reprises what we think we know about Toumai, and adds a Georgian mystery to the mix. Added to the challenge of sorting out the various lineages are questions like: how do we know that this particular individual wasn't an outlier? are we sure we've put the pieces together the right way, and the extrapolations we've made for the rest are accurate?

Paleoanthropology: not for sissies.

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