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World Service,29 Feb 2000,23 mins

Origins part one - Africa

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Report on the beginnings of human evolution in Africa. The programme examines our primate past and how our ancestral hominids first lived on the continent after emerging four million years ago. Professor Ron Clark is currently unearthing a skeleton of an early hominid which could prove to be part of the missing link.

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