Since Darwin's day, paleoanthropologists have energetically sought the key to hominid erectness in many different places. |
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To many paleoanthropologists, Chad is somewhat off the beaten path for hominid evolution, when compared with the famous fossil troves of southern and eastern Africa. |
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Thus, this monograph is a welcome publication for those who work on the later Neogene, and for paleoanthropologists interested in the ecological context of basal hominids. |
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Africa is considered by most paleoanthropologists to be the oldest inhabited territory on Earth, with the human species originating from the continent. |
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In the 1990s, several teams of paleoanthropologists were working throughout Africa looking for evidence of the earliest divergence of the hominin lineage from the great apes. |
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