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\nMeave Leakey and her team discovered a nearly complete skull and face in Kenya, claimed to be 3.5 million years old, sparking scientific debate. While they argue it represents a new species of early human, critics question the...\nMeave Leakey and her team discovered a nearly complete skull and face in Kenya, claimed to be 3.5 million years old, sparking scientific debate. While they argue it represents a new species of early human, critics question the identification due to the fossil's damage. This discovery challenges previous understandings of human ancestry, suggesting a more complex evolutionary history with multiple hominin species coexisting.

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meave leakey, human history, human ancestors, early human species, evolutionary mysteries, evolutionary debate, hominins, archeology, lake turkana, tougan hills, homo erectus, homo rudolphinus, early human, daughter louise, complete skull, fossil specimens, species names, meeve leakey, leakey, meeve, face, discovery, skull, fossil, colleagues, study, believed, complex, living, made, lucy, find, claimed, breed
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