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Our newest oldest ancestor?

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These are exciting times in the study of human origins. But excitement needs to be tempered with caution in assessing the claim of a six-million-year-old direct ancestor of modern humans.

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Figure 1: Hominins old and new.

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    Leslie C. Aiello & Mark Collard

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Aiello, L., Collard, M. Our newest oldest ancestor?. Nature 410, 526–527 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35069164

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