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It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Rebecca Rogers Ackermann, co director of the Human Evolution Research Institute, about the controversy around the fossil that eventually persuaded academics that humans had in fact evolved out of Africa.