Feature: Toumai, a step towards truth of human lineage

Photo taken on Aug. 8, 2019 shows French paleontologist Michel Brunet at his office in Paris, France. In July 2001, a Franco-Chadian team headed by Michel Brunet unearthed a fossil cranium in the Chadian Djurab Desert. Nicknamed Toumai ("hope of life" in the local Daza language, Dazaga, also known as Goran), the fossil skull, also known as Sahelanthropus tchadensis, has been described by some as the earliest forebear ever found of humanity. TO GO WITH "Feature: Toumai, a step towards truth of human lineage" (Xinhua/Gao Jing)