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| | | Leading Edge brings you the latest news from the world of science. Geoff Watts celebrates discoveries as soon as they're being talked about - on the internet, in coffee rooms and bars; often before they're published in journals. And he gets to grips with not just the science, but with the controversies and conversation that surround it.
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|  | | Pleistocene Homo sapiens
from Middle Awash, Ethiopia
© Tim White
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Archaeologists in Ethiopia have uncovered three fossilised skulls.Ìý They are 160,000 years old - the oldest known fossils of modern man or homo sapiens.
Jigsaw puzzle
Genetic evidence currently points to our early origins in Ethiopia. So could this find complete the evolutionary picture of mankind?
Geoff Watts speaks to Professor Tim White, co-leaderÌýof the research team that found the skulls.
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•Ìý Francis Wells, consultant at
ÌýÌý PapworthÌýHospital, rethinks
ÌýÌý Leonardo da Vinci'sÌý
ÌýÌý understanding of the heart
•ÌýÌýhowÌýnutrition in the
ÌýÌý womb affectsÌýour health
ÌýÌýÌýin later life
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