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Oldest member of the human family
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Washington, USA [ScienceMag (registration required)]: Fresh fossils of teeth and jaw fragments of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, plus a state-of-the-art analysis of a three-dimensional virtual reconstruction, show that the 7-million-year-old skull nicknamed Toumai is indeed a hominid and that he might have walked upright.
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