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FYI: The headline is intentionally obtuse. It should've been closer to the facts, IMHO, but engagement sells 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
It’s always been some white dude according to the colonizers stealing artifacts from Africa and rewriting/painting history in their own racial image
It refers to white dudes studying the fossils back in their country
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‘It’s always been some white dude’
the story of humankind
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Two of the first three words in the comment that apparently confounded you are literally "the" "headline", FFS.
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When you look at other African countries with rich fossil records – like Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa – you don’t see the same level of participation, it’s always some white dude, So Ethiopia takes the lead, and that is a great source of pride for us. The discoveries from the Middle Awash have literally rewritten the history of humanity.