Early man `the size of a rabbit'

BEIJING - Man started off with the body the size of a rabbit and a head the size of a table tennis ball, according to Chinese…

BEIJING - Man started off with the body the size of a rabbit and a head the size of a table tennis ball, according to Chinese scientists.

Chinese anthropologists have found traces of human like creatures that wandered forth China's jungles 40 million years ago millions of years earlier than similar species in Africa, the official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.

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