Million-Year-Old Skull Rewrites Human Origin Story, Ruins Everyone’s Week
A Million-Year-Old Skull Walks into a Bar… Subtitled: And promptly upends the fossil record, three PhD dissertations, and the fragile self-esteem of Homo sapiens everywhere. By the time you read this, the skull—officially catalogued as LD 350-1 but already nicknamed “Lucy’s Problematic Ex” by the caffeine-deprived team in Afar, Ethiopia—will have logged more air miles…