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AL 666-1 The jawbones of these two species are
(The fossil record of Homo narrow and quadrangular, similar to tho-
sapiens) se of modern-day apes. But the fossil AL
666-1 has a jaw structure similar to that
This is the fossil of a jawbone found
of modern human beings.
in 1994 in Hadar, Ethiopia, together with
In spite of the fact that fossil AL 666-
fossils of Australopithecus afarensis.
1 has been determined to belong to the
The fossil was dated to 2.3 million years
Homo (human) genus, evolutionists he-
old and displayed characteristics belon-
sitate to interpret it as such. This is be-
ging to Homo sapiens, the human speci-
es alive today. cause the age of this fossil is calculated
The jaw structure of fossil AL 666-1 at 2.3 million years, much earlier than
was quite different from that of A. afa- the age accepted for the Homo genus as
rensis and the 1.75-million-year-old H. a whole.
habilis fossil with which it was found.

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