A new human species has been identified in Africa
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This groundbreaking find came in the form of three fossils: a well preserved skull, complete with a flat face; an almost complete lower jaw, perhaps the most well-preserved specimen of its kind ever discovered; and a fragment of another lower jaw, all discovered in the deserts of Northern Kenya. Together, the specimens complement a mysterious cranium fossil first discovered all the way back in 1972. At the time, the specimen (which was large, and featured a flat face unlike any associated with H. erectus) was determined to belong to an entirely different species, ? rudolfensis, but the absence of a lower jaw that matches with that of the specimen has made justifying this taxonomical distinction somewhat difficult.