In Search of the First Hominins

Ever since Darwin established our close relationship with living apes, anthropologists have sought fossil evidence for the so-called 'missing link', a transitional form between apes and humans. In modern terms, it is known as the Last Common Ancestor between us and our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. The Last Common Ancestor is now believed to have lived 6.6 million years ago, and the e...