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Published online 22 March 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010322-8
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New hominid skull
A 3.5-million-year-old skull is a baffling mosaic of primitive and advanced features.
Hot on the heels of the controversial Kenyan fossil Orrorin tugenensis 1, claimed to take the human lineage back to around 6 million years ago, comes a spectacular new find from Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya and her colleagues2.
The new discovery from the famous Leakey stable will blur the already murky picture of man's distant past.
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