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Reading the cracked brown fragments of fossils and sequences of DNA, scientists have found clues that the storyline of human origins has more convolutions than previously thought. The account in our shared human heritage now includes more controversial plot twists and mysteries. Was the remarkable seven-million-year-old skull within July 2002 in Chad really one in our first forebears, or a distant dead-end cousin with precociously evolved features? Did modern humans really originate in Africa alone, as is widely held, or in multiple locales? Were Neandertals the crude, brutish cavemen of comic strips or did they have a refined, artistic culture? And of course, why didn�t our kind perish with the rest of the hominids? Were we luckier, more lingual or just more lethal than the rest?
