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Nature 420, 735-736 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420735a
Palaeoanthropology: Face to face with our past
Rex Dalton
The President of Chad calls him Toumaï, meaning 'hope of life'. His discoverers, led by palaeontologist Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers in France, named him Sahelanthropus tchadensis, declaring him to be the oldest known human ancestor, or hominid1.
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