article_snippet: Scientists examining a 1.9 million year old pelvis and femur have found that a now extinct species of early human had very different bodies to our own.
article_snippet: While scientists have long studied the different skull shapes and facial features of these species, scientists are now turning scientists attention to scientists bodies.
article_snippet: Later, chimp and human lineages diverge .
article_snippet: Professor Carol Ward, a pathologist at the University of Missouri's school of medicine who studied the remains, said: 'What these new fossils are telling us is that the early species of us genus, Homo, were more distinctive than us thought. 'the early species of our genus, Homo, were more distinctive than we thought differed not only in the early species of our genus, Homo, were more distinctive than we thought faces and jaws, but in the rest of the early species of our genus, Homo, were more distinctive than we thought bodies too. '
article_snippet: The old depiction of linear evolution from ape to human with single steps in between is proving to be inaccurate. '
article_snippet: us are finding that evolution seemed to be experimenting with different human physical traits in different species before ending up with Homo sapiens.'
article_snippet: There are almost no skeletal pieces in the fossil record for these two species so the discovery has provided scientists a rare glimpse at how scientists may have looked.
article_snippet: The researchers, whose study is published in the Journal of Human Evolution, used CT scans of the fossilised pelvis and femur to compare The researchers, whose study is published in the Journal of Human Evolution to those of other species of primate, early human and modern humans.
article_snippet: those of other species of primate, early human and modern humans concluded that the skeletons of early human ancestors may have quite different structures to our own.
article_snippet: This doesn’t necessarily mean that these early human ancestors moved or lived differently, but This does suggest that these early human ancestors were a distinct species that could have been identified not just from looking at these early human ancestors faces and jaws, but by seeing these early human ancestors body shapes as well. '
article_snippet: Our new fossils, along with the other new specimens reported over the past few weeks, tell Our that the evolution of Our genus goes back much earlier than Our thought, and that many species and types of early humans coexisted for about a million years before Our ancestors became the only Homo species left.'
highlights_snippet: The fossils show early humans had varied body shapes as well as skulls .