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Initially we announced the discovery of two individual skeletons and in the
intervening time we've recognized there are four more individuals.
Because we have five papers coming out that cover a variety of skeletal features.
The main over arching discovery that we made is that everything we look at in these
skeletons; when we look at the cranium, when we look at the teeth, when we look at the
arms, when we look at the hands, when we look at the pelvis, and when we look at the feet
we see a transitional form, intermediate between Australopithecines and representatives of
early ***, our own genus. To my mind this over arching extreme scientific value of this is
this is what we would predict using Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
These transitional fossils, these intermediary forms are exactly what would be expected
based on evolutionary theory, so this is a strong confirmation of evolutionary theory
in particular, human evolution.