7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid
Misconduct allegations over an earlier report on one of the bones hang over the findings
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An analysis of 3-D models of approximately 7-million-year-old fossils — an upper leg bone seen from two angles, far left, and two forearm bones, each also shown from two angles — concludes that they come from the earliest known hominid. Opposing charges of scientific misconduct surround this study and an earlier investigation of the leg fossil.
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