Editing 1978 in science (section)

==Paleontology==
* Fossils of [[Saint Bathans mammal]] first collected.
* Fossil footprints of bipedal [[hominini]] from 3.6M BP found at [[Laetoli]] in Tanzania in 1976 are excavated by [[Mary Leakey]]'s team.
* A fossilized partial human cranium is among hominid remains found in [[Apidima Cave]] in southern [[Greece]]; in 2019 it is announced as dating to more than 210,000 years BP, making it the earliest example of ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' outside Africa.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Harvati, Katerina|author2=Röding, Carolin|author3=Bosman, Abel M.|author4=Karakostis, Fotios A.|author5=Grün, Rainer|author6=Stringer, Chris|author7=Karkanas, Panagiotis|author8=Thompson, Nicholas C.|author9=Koutoulidis, Vassilis|author10=Moulopoulos, Lia A.|author11=Gorgoulis, Vassilis G.|author12=Kouloukoussa, Mirsini|year=2019|title=Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of ''Homo sapiens'' in Eurasia|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=571|issue=7766|pages=500–504|doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z |pmid=31292546|s2cid=195873640|url=https://zenodo.org/record/6646855 }}</ref>