Around 400,000 years older than previous discovery of homo lineage, 2.8m-year-old jaw and five teeth was found on rocky slope in Afar region

A PIECE of jawbone with teeth attached, uncovered in Ethiopia, is the earliest known fossil of the genus Homo, to which humans belong, researchers said yesterday.

It lived in Ethiopia and had characteristics similar to those of the australopithecines, but closer to those of the genus Homo

The discovery of a 2.8-million-year-old partial jawbone in Africa could rewrite the history of human evolution.