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The Family That Walks On All Fours

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

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A documentary film on a family living in remote Turkey aired on BBC in 2006, and again on NOVA a few months ago. Why should we care about this Muslim Turkish family? Because several of the many siblings walk on both their hands and their feet, a way that humans have not walked for millions of years. Are they the key to unlocking the course of human evolution?

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