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Article: `MISSING LINK' BONES TURN UP IN S. AFRICA.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- December 10, 1998
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Byline: John Noble Wilford The New York Times
In a discovery that may answer some of the ``missing link'' questions of human evolution, scientists in South Africa have found what they described as the best-preserved and most nearly complete skull and skeleton yet seen of any very early member of the human family tree.
The head-to-toe fossil remains of a 4-foot-tall being who lived sometime between 3.2 million and 3.6 million years ago were uncovered in the depths of a limestone cave near Johannesburg, the discoverers said Wednesday. The specimen is older and much more complete than the famous ``Lucy'' skeleton found in Ethiopia in 1974.
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