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# Dispatch  Paleoanthropology: Homo erectus and the Limits of a Paleontological Species

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## Summary

The bushy nature of the human evolutionary tree in the past 3 million years is widely accepted. Yet, a spectacular new fossil of early Homo has prompted some paleoanthropologists to prune our family tree.

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