![]() "People are working under completely different paradigms, and that's something that I don't see happening in other fields of science." ![]() "When you look at the narrative for hominin origins, it's just a big mess-there's no consensus whatsoever," said Sergio Almécija, a senior research scientist in the American Museum of Natural History's Division of Anthropology and the lead author of the review. To understand hominin origins, paleoanthropologists aim to reconstruct the physical characteristics, behavior, and environment of the last common ancestor of humans and chimps. ![]() Humans diverged from apes-specifically, the chimpanzee lineage-at some point between about 9.3 million and 6.5 million years ago, towards the end of the Miocene epoch. ![]()
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