New Hominid Species Discovery: Australopithecus sediba
- Author:
- Wits University
- Publisher:
- http://www.youtube.com/user/witswebsite
- Publication Date:
- 8 April 2010
- Tags:
- Arts, Culture and Entertainment, South Africa
A team led by Professor Lee Berger, a renowned palaeoanthropologist from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (aka Wits University) have described and named a new species of hominid, Australopithecus sediba, almost two million years old, which was discovered in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, 40 kilometres out of Johannesburg, South Africa.
