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Fossil find sheds light on dawn of humanity source: IOL | Jan 21, 05 | submitted by Ryan

Paris, France - Palaeontologists say they have found a fossil haul from at least nine hominids who lived in eastern Africa more than four million years ago in the early chapters of human history.

The discovery was made at As Duma in Ethiopia's Afar region, near the border with Djibouti, they report in Thursday's issue of Nature, the weekly British scientific journal.

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