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Our oldest Ancestor was a three-year-old Girl

The oldest human ancestor is a three-year-old girl who lived three million years ago

The oldest and most complete human skeleton has been found in Ethiopia, a three-million-year old child of the hominim Australopithecus afarensis. A super-supernova has been discovered that is much brighter than astronomers had thought possible. A visit to the baby lab at the University of Manchester where researchers are trying to understand what babies are thinking. Olavius algarvensis is a marine worm that has outsourced many of its physical functions to microbes in an extreme form of symbiosis. Plus, the first female space tourist.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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