Michel Brunet - Breaking the Wall Around the Secrets of Our Origins @Falling Walls 2009

Where did our lives originate? As Homo sapiens, we have this question wired into our DNA. For Michel Brunet, human paleontology holds the key to an answer. His big break came in Central Africa, during one of his many expeditions searching for fossils: he discovered the skull and several jaws of a late Miocene hominid, whose remains are believed to predate the earliest previously known hominid, Lucy, by more than three million years.

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