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New Burtele Fossil Finding Complicates Human Evolution
April 3rd, 2012
A newly discovered fossil from eastern Africa further complicates theories on the evolution of humans.
In the same area where the infamous Lucy fossil was discovered by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray in 1974, a team lead by Yohannes Haile-Selassie of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History unearthed a partial foot from the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia, an area locally known as Burtele. The results were published last week in the journal Nature. Continue Reading
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Tags: Burtele, Charles Darwin, evidence, human evolution, natural selection, Origin of Species, theory of evolution | 
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