New research complicates our current understanding of where humans came from.
But new radioactive dating techniques suggest Mrs Ples, and the others discovered around her, are actually one million years older than thought.
These findings now suggest they had one million additional years to make that evolutionary leap - making it a possibility that Mrs Ples, and the species she was part of, were ancestors of early humans.
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