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Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human – defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates - EurekAlert


<p>Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins &ndash; and produced a &ldquo;bizarre&rdquo; evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage &ndash; according to a new University of Cambridge study that revises the start and end dates for many of our early ancestors.</p>

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