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Nature Podcast 21 September

This week’s Nature Podcast features a hominid special on the ‘Baby Lucy’ discovery, investigates the roots of obesity, spotlights the Libyan HIV case, and has more on Greenland's GRACE, the first 'PASER', fair skin signals, and sensing shadows.

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Posted by Arran Frood on September 20, 2006 05:56 PM |

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Today's podcast says that Australopithecus afarensis dated to 3.3mya is the common ancestor of humans & chimpanzees. Is this a mistake?

Posted by: Jean Mackenzie | September 20, 2006 06:53 PM

Hello Jean

Apologies for the late reply to your posting due to a technical problem now resolved.

You are quite right that this was an erroneous comment on our podcast - Australopithecus afarensis is an ancestor of humans but not of chimpanzees, as the two primates had diverged long before the appearance of Australopithecus around 3.9 million years ago.

Posted by: Arran Frood | October 25, 2006 11:26 AM

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