Origin-of-species paper has group crying foul over racism

The Cradle of Humankind is a rich landscape of fossils, but the debates on where homo sapiens originated is highly complex.
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Science is science –empirical data that cannot be denied in the face of irrefutable evidence. Or is it?

A recent controversy – surrounding a study located “within colonial and racist scientific ideology” – shows how inflammatory a topic it still is.

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