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‘Little Foot’ hominin emerges from stone after millions of years

Scientists are starting to piece together the evolution of a 3.67 million-year-old early human who may have been among the first to walk like we do.
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After a tortuous 20-year-long excavation, a mysterious ancient skeleton is starting to give up its secrets about human evolution.

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Nature 564, 169-170 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07651-z

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