These are exciting times in the study of human origins. But excitement needs to be tempered with caution in assessing the claim of a six-million-year-old direct ancestor of modern humans.
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Aiello, L., Collard, M. Our newest oldest ancestor?. Nature 410, 526–527 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35069164
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