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A replica of the remains of “Lucy” at the National Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Reuters/Barry Malone Duane Jethro, University of Cape Town “Lucy, you want to see Lucy?” young, would-be tour guides prompt in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Lucy stars in tourist...
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A replica of the remains of “Lucy” at the National Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Reuters/Barry Malone Duane Jethro, University of Cape Town “Lucy, you want to see Lucy?” young, would-be tour guides prompt in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Lucy stars in tourist...
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A: Border Cave’s 200,000 year old fossilised grass fragments. B: The profile section of desiccated grass bedding dating to around 43,000 years ago. Both images copyright Lyn Wadley Irene Esteban, University of the Witwatersrand and Paloma de la Peña Alonso, University...
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Bones recovered from northern Ethiopia have forced a major rethink about how bipedalism evolved. Lars Plougmann Darren Curnoe, UNSW Sydney A report published today in Nature by Yohannes Hailie-Selassie and co-workers outlines the importance to our evolutionary story...
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The Red Deer Cave people and humans could be part of different evolutionary lines. Peter Schouten Darren Curnoe, UNSW Sydney The origin of the human species remains one of the most fascinating and difficult topics of modern science. One of the main reasons for this is...
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Hominin skull casts (L-R) Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis. Roger Seymour/South Australian Museum, Author provided Roger S. Seymour Anthropologists have been curious about the evolution of human intelligence...