ANOTHER TYPE OF HUMAN?
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A leading palaeontologist has questioned the heritage of a 3.5-million-year-old fossil skull hailed two years ago as a new human relative. The fossil hit the headlines when Meave Leakey and colleagues of the national museums of Kenya described it as evidence of a new human-like lineage. They named their specimen Kenyanthropus platyops, or, the "flat-faced man of Kenya". Could there be another type of human and how could this have existed?
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