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Nature 410, 526-527 (29 March 2001) | doi:10.1038/35069164;

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Palaeoanthropology: Our newest oldest ancestor?

Last month a team of French and Kenyan researchers, led by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford, published their discovery of 12 fossils, including fragmentary thigh and arm bones as well as several teeth, that they claim belong to a previously unrecognized genus and species of human ancestor. Originally dubbed 'Millennium man' or 'Millennium ancestor', these fossils come from the Lukeino Formation of the Tugen Hills in Kenya.

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