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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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The fossil hands of Australopithecus sediba (around two million years old) and Homo naledi (around 250,000 years old) show that these South African hominins may have had different levels of dexterity, as well as different climbing abilities.

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© Tracy Kivell

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