3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya

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• Publication year

  2015

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  Nature

• Publication date

  2015-05-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1038/nature14464PMID 25993961
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