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Hesitation on hominin history

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Extensive studies of fossil skeletons of Australopithecus sediba provide fascinating details of the anatomy of this hominin species, but do not convincingly indicate its position on the evolutionary route to modern humans.

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Figure 1: Australopithecus sediba.

BRENT STIRTON, COURTESY LEE R. BERGER & UNIV. WITWAT ERSRAND

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  1. William H. Kimbel is at the Institute of Human Origins and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-4101, USA.,

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Kimbel, W. Hesitation on hominin history. Nature 497, 573–574 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/497573a

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