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Researchers now have substantial evidence, published in this week's edition of the journal Science, that Australopithecus sediba could be a direct ancestor of the Homo genus, of which humans are a part (we are Homo sapiens).

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Researchers now have substantial evidence, published in this week's edition of the journal Science , that Australopithecus sediba could be a direct ancestor of the Homo genus, of which humans are a part (we are Homo sapiens).

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Based on the variety of Australopithecus forms that have been found, Ian Tattersall, paleoanthropologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who wasn't involved in the study, said he believes Australopithecus sediba probably did not give rise to Homo.