To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
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Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.
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Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.
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