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07/06/2004:

"Fragments help fill out human origins"

SCIENTISTS working in Kenya have found skull fragments from what they say was an early, tool-making human that lived more than 900,000 years ago, perhaps filling an important gap in the fossil record.

Scientists from the United States, Britain and Kenya found part of a skull of a small adult with some characteristics of Homo erectus, in Olorgesalie, 60km south-east of the capital, Nairobi, said Richard Potts, the lead researcher.
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