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to use photographs of the fossils collected by the Omo Group
Research Expedition, and to Tim White for permission to
use photographs of the fossils collected by the Middle Awash
research project and of the casts of fossil suids from the collec-
tions of the Human Evolution Research Center, University of
California at Berkeley. I also thank John Rowan for improvingthe English of the manuscript. The writing of this manuscript
was funded by the LaScArBx at Bordeaux, a programme sup-
ported by the ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche,
ANR-10-LABX-52). I dedicate this manuscript to my wife
Sohee and our daughter Lise Miso ‘Dodo’, born just a few days
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