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Human evolution: How we misread our own story

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William Davies ponders a chronicle unwinding the twisted strands of thinking on human evolution.

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  1. William Davies is director of the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins at the University of Southampton, UK.,

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Davies, W. Human evolution: How we misread our own story. Nature 522, 154–155 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/522154a

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