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The Earliest Hominids

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One of the biggest problems facing palaeoanthropologists at the moment is the question of disagreement and definition.

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PILBEAM, D. The Earliest Hominids. Nature 219, 1335–1338 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2191335a0

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