VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-19
“Recent discoveries are eroding the usefulness and accuracy of current classification, including the current species in our own genus Homo, but also in Australopithecus and Paranthropus, who all lived within the past 5 million years,”
Dr. Ian Towle · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-19
Dr. Ian Towle argued that recent discoveries undermine current hominin classifications.
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