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Science 22 September 1989:
Vol. 245. no. 4924, pp. 1343 - 1350
DOI: 10.1126/science.2506640
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Science, Vol 245, Issue 4924, 1343-1350
Copyright © 1989 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Human origins

EL Simons

Duke University Center, Durham, NC 27705.

New discoveries combine to indicate that all the major steps in human evolution took place in Africa. Skeletal analysis of oldest human forbears around 3 million years ago reveal many anatomical similarities to African Great Apes. These and biochemical resemblances indicate a common ancestry for humans and apes, perhaps only a few million years earlier. Enlarged knowledge through recent recovery of skeletons of several successive stages in the line leading to modern peoples shows that many attributes or skills by which we define humanity arose much more recently in time than heretofore believed.


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