South Africa: New Family Tree for Humans?

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Johannesburg — STARTLING new research suggests that one of SA's most treasured beliefs that the fossils of the Sterkfontein Caves are the source of humankind may be wrong and out by more than a million years.

This would turn thinking about who holds the title of "matriarch of humanity" on its head.

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