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Ella Al-Shamahi

The fossil finder who can't wait to return to war-torn Yemen

24 January 2018

Secrets about our origins could be hiding in a cave in Yemen, says Ella Al-Shamahi – if only she could get there

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The fossil finder extraordinaire who's rewriting human evolution

27 September 2017

Lee Berger’s stunning discoveries of huge caches of ancient bones are overturning ideas about our origins, but not everyone likes his methods

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