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EPISODE · Sep 8, 2011 · 28 MIN

Quentin on human ancestry, beautiful genomes and gold from the sky.

from Material World · host BBC Radio 4

Quentin reports on a possible human ancestor, beautiful genomes and what happened to all the gold on – or in - Earth. Quentin Cooper hears about the fossils of a small but surprisingly well-formed possible human ancestor from South Africa; how one writer has come to understand and live with her beautiful genome; and how all the gold we can mine once rained down from above.

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