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The Times reports that one of the world’s most important collections of human remains has been lost to science, after the Natural History Museum gave up the specimens without first carrying out work that would have preserved vital clues to evolution. Bones and teeth from 17 Tasmanian Aborigines were handed over to a community group yesterday, after the museum dropped plans for a final research programme.

Read full article (The Times, May 12, 2007)
Go to website Natural History Museum

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