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If a few teeth of intermediate size and shape make “the most complete chain of human evolution,” then the evidence for human evolution must be quite modest.

Prof. Yoel Rak challenged his colleagues at Tel Aviv University’s anthropology department, saying their groundbreaking find is in fact a run-of-the-mill Neanderthal. He says they responded by changing his locks

Prof. Yoel Rak challenged his colleagues at Tel Aviv University’s anthropology department, saying their groundbreaking find is in fact a run-of-the-mill Neanderthal. He says they responded by changing his locks

Get email notification for articles from Ruth Schuster Follow Apr. 22, 2021 4:09 PM In a cave in South Africa, an almost complete skeleton of an australopithecine was found in a process that would take years, starting in 1994. Hominin fossils are rare enough; complete ones are even rarer, and extracting them from the surrounding rock is extremely painstaking and time-consuming. First, the archaeologists found its foot, based on which it was determined that “Little Foot,” as it was dubbed, ...