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Science 29 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5599, pp. 1708 - 1711
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5599.1708
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PROFILE: MICHEL BRUNET:
One Scientist's Quest for the Origin of Our Species

Ann Gibbons

POITIERS, FRANCE--Years of effort in hostile territory have finally paid off for French paleontologist Michel Brunet, who discovered a fossil that might be the first member of the human family--although not everyone is convinced. In a field peopled by celebrity scientists, it seemed to many that Brunet came out of nowhere; the find of the century was made by a man trained not in hominids but in paleontology. Now, at 62, after a life of being little known outside his field, he is suddenly in demand everywhere.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)