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Science 15 February 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5558, pp. 1219 - 1225
DOI: 10.1126/science.295.5558.1219
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BECOMING HUMAN:
What Made Humans Modern?

Michael Balter

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, AND CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--Could our species have been born in a rapid burst of change? Researchers from different disciplines are trying to find out. A flurry of new evidence from three sources--fossils, art and artifacts, and genes--is forcing researchers to rethink just what traits mark the origin of our species and how and when these traits appeared.

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