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The middle Pliocene gets crowded

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New hominin fossils discovered in Ethiopia, dated to between 3.5 million and 3.3 million years ago, suggest that species diversity may have been as high during early human evolution as in later periods. See Article p.483

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Figure 1: Temporal distribution of known hominin species.

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  1. Fred Spoor is in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, and the Department of Human Evolution, University College London WC1E 6BT, UK, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.,

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