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Published online 12 July 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010712-14
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New early human fossils
Fossils fuel controversy about humanity's earliest days
New-found fossils have fueled controversy surrounding the earliest days of our hominid ancestors, and those of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom.
Chimpanzees' and humans' most recent common ancestor is thought to have lived in Africa around 6 million years ago.
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