‘We don’t know from which creature humans and chimpanzees evolved’

Tuesday 8th March 2022

‘We don’t know from which creature humans and chimpanzees evolved’

Tim White holds the skull of an African hominid

Entrevista a Tim White en el Cenieh de Burgos.

Ricardo Ordóñez 22/02/2022

For 50 years, Tim White has been answering one of the most-fascinating questions faced by humanity: where did we come from? In 1979, when he was still in his 20s, he was one of the paleoanthropologists who announced to the world the discovery of Lucy, the remains of an Australopithecus (a genus of early hominins) a meter tall, and that showed that, despite their small brains, human ancestors already walked upright more than three million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.

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Richard Freeman
Richard Freeman has been the zoological director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1997, and has authored a number of books on the subject of Cryptozoology. He has carried out many major expeditions in search of mystery animals. He also writes fiction.