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Fossil upends theories about evolution of human ancestors

That could mean long-accepted models of the common ancestor between humans and apes are wrong...The species, called Ardipithecus ramidus, is one million years older than "Lucy," the famous partial female skeleton of a hominid that lived 3.2 million years ago and was previously the closest scientists...

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