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Science 5 March 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5663, pp. 1478 - 1480
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095516
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Perspectives

ANTHROPOLOGY:
The Earliest Hominins--Is Less More?

David R. Begun

There is much discussion among anthropologists about the number of taxa that lived shortly after the human lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees. In his Perspective, Begun discusses a recent hominid fossil find in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia that suggests there may have been more diversity among the first humans than previously thought (Haile-Selassie et al.).

The author is in the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada. E-mail: begun{at}chass.utoronto.ca

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