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Maintained by pioweb@ucsc.edu. The common ancestor of placental mammals probably looked like Eomaia scansoria, the earliest known placental mammal, shown here in an artist's reconstruction based on a 125-million-year-old fossil skeleton found in China in 2002.aintained by pioweb@ucsc.edu. The common ancestor of placental mammals probably looked like Eomaia scansoria, the earliest known placental mammal, shown here in an artist's reconstruction based on a 125-million-year-old fossil skeleton found in China in 2002.
exists and is an alternate of . The most generally accepted scientific theory states that the first humans (defined as members of the genus Homo) originated in Africa. The oldest known fossil of a human ancestor (a female Ardipithecus ramidus specimen nicknamed Ardi, 3.2 million years old) at a site called Aramis in the Middle Awash region of the Afar Desert in Ethiopia.