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Palaeontology: Return to the planet of the apes

Henry Gee

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Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to various interpretations. Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is absent altogether.

Discoveries of fossil hominids are like buses: nothing for a while, then three come along at once. Earlier this year, Leakey et al.1 announced Kenyanthropus platyops, a 3.