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Duke Seniors Discuss Finding a New Human Ancestor

Two undergrads took part in the biggest anthropological discovery of the year

Duke seniors Kelly Ostrofsky and Tawnee Sparling went to South Africa
last summer to collect data for their senior honors theses. With their
mentor, anthropology professor Steven Churchill, they took part in
describing the biggest discovery of the year: two nearly complete
skeletons of a pre-human called Australopithecus sediba.