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Duke's Steven Churchill and an international team of colleagues published the second wave of papers in the journal Science from their analysis of two South African specimens called Australopithecus sediba. He is joined by his colleague, Boston University's Jeremy DeSilva, in describing the latest findings in a conversation hosted by Duke's Karl Bates. This latest round of analysis goes deeper into several areas of the anatomy of the two spectacularly complete A. sediba specimens and turns up some surprises.
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