Yukon fossils represent a pivotal moment in evolution

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Another recent report, this time from Malaysia.

http://malaysiabreakingnews.blogspot.com...r-her.html

“I took back the axe to USM and sent it through a CT scan. It read 1.7 to 1.8 million years old,” says Mokhtar, holding up a suevite rock in the oil palm plantation, his quiet voice loud in verdant ground on a Sunday morning.

“We then sent it for fission track dating by the Geochronology Laboratory in Tokyo, which put it down to about 1.83 ± 0.61 million years old.


“That makes the tools here the oldest in the world to date. The ones in Africa — the oldest stone hand axe — is 1.5 million years old.” Sometime last year, Mokhtar found several fragments of bone, including a long bone and a finger, embedded in a suevite rock. The pieces have been sent for scientific testing.