Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists now recognize more than a dozen species in the Homo genus. So what, exactly, was the first human species? The answer, ...

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(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...