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A 100 years ago the discovery of a skull in South Africa's North West province altered our understanding of human evolution.
It was the first evidence that Charles Darwin's assertion that apes and humans shared a long-ago common ancestor.
Much of the controversy is centred on the age of fossils found at Sterkfontein , a Unesco World Heritage Site .
Using an equation that we developed, we quantified a relationship between tooth ratios and geological age for our sample of Tanzanian , Kenyan and Ethiopian fossils, including Australopithecus afarensis and early Homo species such as H. habilis .
In this way we have been able to obtain dates for individual molars.
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