A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

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