Controversial femur could belong to ancient human relative (original) (raw)

Few scientists have had access to a thigh bone kept in a French collection for over a decade.

  1. Ewen Callaway

When anthropologists meet in France at the end of January, one of the most provocative fossils in the study of human evolution will not feature on the agenda. The approximately 7-million-year-old femur1 was examined more than a decade ago by scientists in the French city of Poitiers, but has yet to be thoroughly described in a published scientific paper.

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Nature 553, 391-392 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-00972-z

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