The Afar region of Ethiopia is littered with traces of the earliest humans. Rex Dalton gets on the trail with a team of devoted experts who just live for the next find.
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Dalton, R. Awash with fossils. Nature 439, 14–16 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/439014a
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