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Sending human skeletons home

Britain's Natural History Museum has said it is ready to talk about the repatriation of human skeletons after Zimbabwean President Mugabe called for the return of skulls of 19th century rebel fighters. But why are so many skeletons from around the world still held in British museum collections? Professor Alice Roberts is an anthropologist who studies human diversity by looking at bones.

(Photo: Alice Roberts and a human skull Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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