Now that the details about Australopithecus sedibathe details about Australopithecus sediba have been published, I am faced with an important question – how am I going to fit the new hominin into Written in Stone?

When I started composing Written in Stone I was determined to make it as up-to-date as possible. This was not only out of a concern for accuracy, but also stemmed from a desire to present the public with some discoveries that they may not have heard about before. Given that new paleontological papers are being published every week, however, I have often been faced with the question of how to incorporate interesting new research into a book that I thought was nearly finished.

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