Africa: A Tiny Bone From Little Foot's Skeleton Adds Fresh Insights Into What Our Ancestors Could Do

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In his book Wonderful Life, Professor Stephen Jay Gould - an evolutionary biologist, palaeontologist and widely-read popular science author - described the evolution of life in the following way:

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

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