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Nature 403, 363-364 (27 January 2000) | doi:10.1038/35000276

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An evolutionary odyssey

Jean-Jacques Hublin1

Four and a half million years ago, the first hominids were just another species of African ape competing for new ecological niches. Like all other species before them, the pre-humans followed the well-trodden path of biological adaptation.