Fossilized teeth discovered in Ethiopia have revealed a new-to-science species of Australopithecus , a genus of early hominins that lived from the Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene. Not only does it add to our busy human family tree , but the discovery proves they were living alongside the oldest specimens of Homo , the genus of early humans that includes our species, Homo sapiens . The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The discovery challenges the ape-to-human view of our evolution, demonstrating that our family tree? It’s really more of a shrub.

“This new research shows that the image many of us have in our minds of an ape to a Neanderthal to a modern human is not correct – evolution doesn’t work like that,” sa

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