What's the oldest hominid (with reference please) found to date?

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What's the oldest hominid (with reference please) found to date?

Answer 1

Scientists announced finding jaw fragments, some isolated teeth and a skull of a creature nicknamed “Toumai” in Chad. At 6 million to 7 million years old, the fossils came from around the time of a major split in the evolutionary tree, with one branch leading eventually to humans and the other branch leading to chimps.

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Answer 2

Krod it right with the caveat that it is presumed the oldest hominid.  If it is in fact ancestral to chimps which is entirely possible, then it doesn't fit the definition of hominid even though if that were the case, it is obviously extremely closely related to that common ancestor.  Therefore, it is important to insert the word possible (or at a stretch, probable).  Thre are some other possibilties such as Ardipithecus.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardipithecu...