Questions for “The ultimate genealogical search hunts for our earliest ancestors”
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Some of our ancestors may have been roaming the planet up to 7 million years ago. Paleoanthropologists have been patiently excavating fossils of those ancient cousins and are attempting to piece together where on the human family tree we all reside.
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