Chad celebrates new fossil centre

Chad is celebrating the opening of its first palaeontology department - only the fourth in Africa - following a discovery which shook up the understanding of human origins.
Until a few years ago, most people thought that the human line emerged in East Africa's Rift Valley. Scientists like Dr Louis Leakey helped make the region famous, and called the area the "cradle of mankind".

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