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Along the way, other human relatives emerged and disappeared.
"I'm taking better care of my dog than I'd ever do for my human relatives," Mr Lopez said.
In 1974, the paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson led an expedition to Ethiopia to look for fossils of ancient human relatives.
The markings reveal that the ancient human relatives walked side by side for at least 30 metres.
Though often dismissed as thick-browed thugs, our human relatives were immensely capable, as evidenced by hauls of stone tools and other artefacts they left behind.
And it seems likely that as DNA from more ancient remains is analyzed still other human relatives will be found; as Chris Stringer, a prominent British paleoanthropologist, told me, "I'm sure we've got more surprises to come".
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