Ape Man - Episode 02: First-born

BBC, Robin McKie

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Title: Ape Man - Episode 02: First-born
Producer: BBC, Robin McKie
Category: Science, Ape Man
Views: 360
Added: Oct 24th 2010
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The discovery of a child's skeleton on the edge of the Kalahari desert gave rise to the theory of a species that straddled the boundary between human and ape. Did these australopithecines, or "upright apes", flourish because of the abandonment of vegetarianism?

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