By PURDUE UNIVERSITY The earth doesn’t give up its ancient secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been discovered. Scientists have studied these fossils of early human ancestors and their long-lost relatives for decades. Now, a dating method developed by a Purdue University geologist just pushed the age of some … Continue reading Human ancestor fossils in the “cradle of humankind” may be more than a million years older than thought