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April 14, 2005
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Branching out
The cast of a skull (left) believed to be from the oldest human ancestor, a small fellow now called Toumai who lived seven million years ago, was cracked and distorted by the weight of the earth. The computer reconstruction (right) reveals strong evidence that its owner walked upright. Toumai lived around the time when anthropologists believe our ancestors separated from chimpanzees. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office)
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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Human skull is 7 million years old
Researchers say its owner walked upright
Requisites for succes: Stamina, boundary-setting
Women in Science Symposium looks at obstacles and strategies
Engineering with cells
Mooney seeks signals that provide cellular instructions
Horng-Tzer Yau named professor of mathematics
'Leader in mathematics' currently at Stanford
The family that discovers together
Everyone learns something at HMNH
Harvard launches popular Web site in Spanish
Cuidar de su Salud offers personalized risk assessment and health information for Spanish speakers
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