A Bone from a Dry SeaThen--Li is a child, yet she is the thinker of her people, our ancestors perhaps, who live between the parching land and the mothering sea. Now--four million years later, that sea is dry. Another child, Vinny, visits the site where her father is one of a team searching for fossil remains of our ancestors. She too is a thinker, whose curiosity leads to a discovery that could alter the story of human evolution. |
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