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Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

Material World: 08/09/2011

08/09/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, 08/09/2011

Quentin Cooper on human ancestry, beautiful genomes and gold from the sky.

Quentin Cooper reports on a possible human ancestor, beautiful genomes, what happened to all the gold on - or in - the Earth and how it was replenished from above.

Quentin Cooper hears about the fossils of a small but surprisingly well-formed possible human ancestor from South Africa; how one writer has come to understand and live with her beautiful genome; and how all the gold we can mine once rained down from above.

Producer: Martin Redfern.

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