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Field Notes: A Visit to an Early Human Death Trap [Videos and Slide Show]

Could a recently discovered species from South Africa be the ancestor of us all?

Top photo: Nearly two million-year-old skull of a young male Australopithecus sediba, a fossil human species recently discovered in South Africa.
Bottom Photo: End of hominin shinbone pokes through the sediment at Malapa, waiting to be excavated.

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    There was a pretty nifty documentary on this guy on NatGeo a few months back.
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    Field Notes: A Visit to an Early Human Death Trap [Videos and Slide Show]
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    Sahelanthropus Tchadensis!!!!!
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