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New technology brings early ancestors back to life.

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A documentary and animation filmmaker from Bern, Michele studied film at Zurich University of the Arts. He's been a swissinfo.ch video journalist since 2004 and has a special interest in developing new video formats for mobile viewing, mixing animation and documentary styles.

How best to reconstruct our earliest ancestors? An anthropology professor at Zurich University, Christoph Zollikofer, is providing groundbreaking insights into rare hominid fossils. (swissinfo, Michele Andina)

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