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In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of dispute concerning early human evolution. Fossil apes are often at the center of the debate, with some scientists dismissing their importance to the origins of the human lineage (the "hominins"), and others conferring them starring evolutionary roles. A new review out on May 7 in the journal Science looks at the major…

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Australopithecus afarensis Johanson & White, 1978 - fossil hominid from the Pliocene of eastern Africa. (replica of AL 288-1 (National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) on public display, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) Hominids are humans. Fossils of the human family are known back to the Miocene, with many species known from Pliocene and Pleistocene sedimentary rocks. Only one species in Family Hominidae is alive today, in the late Holocene - that's…

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