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Science 8 April 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5719, pp. 179 - 181
DOI: 10.1126/science.308.5719.179a
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Facelift Supports Skull's Status as Oldest Member of the Human Family

Ann Gibbons

Fresh fossils of teeth and jaw fragments of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, plus a state-of-the-art analysis of a three-dimensional virtual reconstruction, show that the 7-million-year-old skull nicknamed Toumai is indeed a hominid and that he might have walked upright.

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