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Any member of an adaptively diverse group of extinct hominin species that inhabited Africa between approximately 4.2 million years ago (MYA) and 1.2...
The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Area is located northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. This world heritage locale encompasses 47,000...
Pliocene Hominins: the australopiths (in 'Fossil humans' article)
Pliocene humans have been grouped in various ways, but it now seems that four main types can be distinguished. Three of these, dating from roughly 4.5
Australopith relationships (in 'Fossil humans' article)
The widely accepted view before 1978 was that Aus. africanus represented the common ancestor of the robust forms and Homo. The discovery of Aus. afare


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The Malapa hominin skeleton 1 (MH1). (Reproduced from L. R. Berger et al., Australopithecus sediba: A new species of Homo-like australopith from South Africa, Science, 328:195–204, 2010)
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Figure 1.Geochronological distribution of hominin species. The scale at the bottom is in millions of years ago (MYA).
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