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Humans Evolved from African Ape-Like Ancestor, Research Suggests

In new research, paleoanthropologists from the United States and Canada analyzed the morphology of a hominin talus (large bone in the ankle that joins with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneus of the foot) attributed to Ardipithecus ramidus, a species of hominid that lived in the east of the African continent around 4.4 million years ago.

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