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three and a half feet tall, with a V- 
shaped lower jaw and a head the size 
of a softball — as well as larger crea- 
tures fully human in stature but with 
their molar teeth set in parallel rows 
like a chimpanzee’s. Where was 1470 
in this picture? Had he popped into 
existence in a mere 400,000 years by 
some sort of macromutation? Where 
did Homo come from, and why? 
In the last three years, this series 
of puzzles has been partly solved, and 
a new picture of human evolution is 
beginning to emerge. The crucial step 
was realizing that 1470 was a million 
years younger than Richard Leakey 
had thought. The Koobi Fora site had 
a suspicious aroma from the begin- 
ning; not only was the 1470 skull a 
million years more advanced looking 
than other 3-million-year-old homi- 
nids, but it was surrounded by equally 
precocious horses, pigs, and elephants. 
The current consensus, based on new 
potassium-argon dates, is that the 
Koobi Fora deposits are only slightly 
older than the lowest levels at Olduvai 
and that there is no good evidence 
for Homo prior to about 2 million 
years ago. But there are now lots of 
hominid fossils from almost 4 million 
years ago: from the Hadar site (which 
the latest estimates date back to some- 
thing over 3.7 million years), and from 
Mary Leakey’s site of Laetoli. The 
great contribution of Johanson and his 
colleagues has been to sort out these 
earlier hominids and provide a sensible 
scheme for hooking them up with the 
later ones. 
In 1976, Tim White, who had 
worked at Koobi Fora and had de- 
scribed the Laetoli hominids, began 
trying to convince Johanson that the 
Hadar and Laetoli hominids repre- 
sented a single species. Two years of 
argument, calculation, and browbeat- 
ing punctuated with sarcasm brought 
Johanson around, and in 1978 he and 
White assigned all the Hadar and Lae- 
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