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Apr 10, 2015 5 min

News Bite: Cosmic rays date ancient human ancestor

from Past Time Hosted by Adam Pritchard, Matthew Borths, Catherine Early

Dating fossils might sound like Saturday night for a paleontologist, but it’s serious science! In a new study, a group of physicists and paleontologists teamed up to re-date one of the most complete skeletons of a human relative ever discovered. The skeleton was discovered in a cave in South Africa twenty years ago, but the […]

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