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Nature 440, 1100-1101 (27 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/4401100a; Published online 26 April 2006; Corrected 27 April 2006

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Deciding whether our ancestors evolved as a single lineage may depend more on philosophy than fossils. Rex Dalton reports.

The human family tree may now be a lot cleaner, according to the discoverers of a cache of fossils on a hillside in Ethiopia.The researchers say the fossils, from the Afar region, go a long way towards showing that early hominids were not a diverse group of coexisting species.

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