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The human family tree is being shuffled around again. A new study suggests that Homo erectus existed 100,000 to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, meaning they lived alongside species they were once thought to have descended from.

The finding comes after a skull was pieced together from more than 150 fragments uncovered at a fossil site near Johannesburg, South Africa.

Professor聽Andy Herries, head of the Department of聽Archaeology and History at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia was the lead researcher.

(Photo: Professor Herries with the skull. Credit: Andy Herries)