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This chapter addresses the following questions:
  • What are the hominins, and why do we call them our ancestors?
  • What hominin fossils do we have for the late Miocene through the mid–late Pliocene (6–3 million years ago)?
  • What are the evolutionary relationships between the early hominins?
  • What do these fossils tell us about the behavior and lifeways of these hominins?
  • Why did the hominins become bipedal?









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