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From the Ted Talk by Zeresenay Alemseged: The search for humanity's roots

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I'm a phtlolpginooasraeot, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human. And today, I will use Selam, the earliest clhid ever discovered, to tell you a story of all of us. sealm is our most complete stoelekn of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus asinrefas. You don't need to remember that. That's the Lucy seepcis, and was found by my research team in December of 2000 in an area called Dikika. It's in the northeastern part of eihiptoa. And Selam mneas peace in many Ethiopian languages. We use that name to celebrate peace in the region and in the planet. And the fact that it was the cover story of all these famous magazines gives you already an idea of her significance, I think.

Open Cloze

I'm a ___________________, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human. And today, I will use Selam, the earliest _____ ever discovered, to tell you a story of all of us. _____ is our most complete ________ of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus _________. You don't need to remember that. That's the Lucy _______, and was found by my research team in December of 2000 in an area called Dikika. It's in the northeastern part of ________. And Selam _____ peace in many Ethiopian languages. We use that name to celebrate peace in the region and in the planet. And the fact that it was the cover story of all these famous magazines gives you already an idea of her significance, I think.

Solution

  1. child
  2. ethiopia
  3. selam
  4. means
  5. paleoanthropologist
  6. skeleton
  7. afarensis
  8. species

Original Text

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human. And today, I will use Selam, the earliest child ever discovered, to tell you a story of all of us. Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis. You don't need to remember that. That's the Lucy species, and was found by my research team in December of 2000 in an area called Dikika. It's in the northeastern part of Ethiopia. And Selam means peace in many Ethiopian languages. We use that name to celebrate peace in the region and in the planet. And the fact that it was the cover story of all these famous magazines gives you already an idea of her significance, I think.

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