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Blog Entries

Community Outreach

First Day of Dental Camp a Success

Community Outreach Blog | Samia Omar | Thursday, 2 July 2009

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Thursday 02 June, 2009 Today marked the first day of the dental camp at Illeret. After unloading the crates early in the morning, the team setup the camp by 10:30 am ...

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Koobi Fora Research Project

Hominin teeth at the start of the season

KFRP Blog | Lawrence Nzuve | Wednesday, 17 June 2009

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Here is a report from our first few days in the field. We started the season returning to area 10, where we were working in 2007. There were some fossils ...

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Headlines

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"MISSING LINK" FOUND: New Fossil Links Humans, Lemurs?

May 19, 2009—Meet "Ida," the small "missing link" found in Germany that's created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins.

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A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree - NYTimes.com

STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Six years after their discovery, the extinct little people nicknamed hobbits who once occupied the Indonesian island of Flores remain mystifying anomalies in human evolution, out of place in time and geography, their ancestry unknown...

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