Quentin on human ancestry, beautiful genomes and gold from the sky.

Published: Sept. 8, 2011, 5 p.m.

b'Quentin reports on a possible human ancestor, beautiful genomes and what happened to all the gold on \\u2013 or in - Earth.\\n\\nQuentin Cooper hears about the fossils of a small but surprisingly well-formed possible human ancestor from South Africa; how one writer has come to understand and live with her beautiful genome; and how all the gold we can mine once rained down from above.'