Digging for humanity's origins - Louise Leakey
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Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing ancestors.
Leakey says that we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas and the chimpanzees. She said, "We have a common past and a common future." What does she mean by that?
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