The anatomy of three new fossils, including a face, lends support to the hypothesis that there were at least two parallel lineages early in the evolutionary history of our own genus, Homo. See Letter p.201
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Wood, B. Facing up to complexity. Nature 488, 162–163 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/488162a
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