Picture shows the right hand skeleton of the adult female Australopithecus sediba against a modern human hand. The hand, seen here in palmar view, lacks three wrist bones and four terminal phalanges, but is otherwise complete. MUST CREDIT: Peter Schmid. Picture courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of Witwatersrand.
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By Duncan Mil
September 8, 2011 - Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands and feet of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive hominin that existed around the same time early Homo species first began to appear on Earth.
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