2007-10-18

The complex lives of earliest humans

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by Neil Godfrey

What can be deduced from a bit of ochre and a whale barnacle . . . .

News story of a recent publication in Nature, with related audio file:

Earliest humans lived complex lives, scientists find by Sarah Clarke

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The complex lives of earliest humans

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