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”
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(
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researchers labeled a number of diverse, fragmentary fossils from East Africa and
SouthAfrica
‘
H. habilis,
’
making the taxon a
‘
grab bag
…
a Homo waste bin,
’
says
paleoanthropologist Chris Ruff of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland
”
).