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Ethiopian Fossil Discovery

Published July 11, 2001 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports that scientists working in an Ethiopian desert have uncovered a small boxful of bone fragments and teeth that they say may be the oldest human ancestor.

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