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Toumaï
Photo: Toumaï skull, by Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Newly Published Analysis Refutes Claims that Sahelanthropus tchadensis Was Human Ancestor

What happened to the femur? Did the original discoverers hold on to the bones to stonewall an analysis with a conclusion they didn’t like? Read More ›
Sahelanthropus
Sahelanthropus
Photo: Sahelanthropus tchadensis, by Didier Descouens (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2018: For Paleoanthropology, Another Annus Horribilis

In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert. Read More ›
Sahelanthropus
Photo: Sahelanthropus tchadensis, by Didier Descouens (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

For Paleoanthropology, Dawn of Another Annus Horribilis

In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert. Read More ›

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