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Fossil debate over missing link sparks clash over Lucy
AP veteran reports from Atlanta on anthropologist Donald Johanson presenting fossils from East Africa as the closest to a missing link between apes and humans. The Lucy find, 3 to 4 million years old, fuels argument over human origins and triggers tensions over skull evidence and classifications between Australopithecus and Homo.
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Paul Raeburn
Atlanta
East Africa
Donald Johanson
Johanson
Lucy
International Primatological Society