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...unearthed anything this revolutionary since 1974, when the famous fossil skeleton known as Lucy was discovered about 50 miles north of the current find. That 3.2 million-year-old female hominid had some human characteristics -- most notably, she walked on two legs rather than four -- but skull and tooth fragments indicated she was somewhat apelike as well. She fit nicely into the shared-ancestor theory first put forward by Charles Darwin and supported by modern comparisons between human and ape proteins and DNA. The divergence between the ape and human lines, argued the biochemists, came somewhere between 4 million...
Paleontologist Gen Suwa was walking across the pebble-covered desert of north- central Ethiopia under the searing midday sun, peering carefully around him for ancient bones. Then he saw it: the telltale gleam of a fossil tooth partially exposed on the rocky ground. "I knew immediately that it was a hominid tooth," says the University of Tokyo scientist, "and one of the oldest ever found...
...People were going after each other tooth and nail," Nero said...
...Rice Hughes: "Tooth decay, nearsightedness, no reflex. I knew that. I was a biology major...
...Trebek: "Tooth decay, nearsightedness, the last one has something to do with a knee jerk -- no knee jerk...