1. The term 'hominid' include all extinct species thought to be human ancestors, as well as living human beings, chimpanzees and gorillas.
2. At a time when Charles Darwin was still struggling to decide whether he should publish his still un-written theory about the origin of species by natural selection. The first edition of his Origin of Species came out in 1859.
3. Cited in Martin Meredith, Born in Africa. The Quest for the Origins of Human Life, (London: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 178.
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