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Article: Ancestors go South.(Australopithecus fossils found in South Africa date to 4 milion years ago)(Brief Article)
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- April 26, 2003
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Some of the oldest fossils in the human evolutionary family--including the skull and upper-arm bone shown above--come from South Africa, according to a study in the April 25 Science.
A mix of new and already excavated Australopithecus fossils, found in two caves, date to 4 million years ago, reports a team led by Timothy C. Partridge of University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. That's as many as 1 million years ...