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Science 5 January 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5245, p. 32
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5245.32b
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Research News

Virginia Morell

A new area for exploring human origins may be opening up. Three weeks ago, in the Danakil Desert of Eritrea, a team of Eritrean and Italian scientists unearthed a well-preserved hominid skull and other fossils dating to about 2 million years ago. Although the skull's precise identity is still shrouded in sand and stone, researchers think it could be Homo erectus; in any event, it is the first hominid found in the region.




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