Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 59, Issue 1The Museum, 1971 - Natural history |
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... forms from Kanapoi and Lower Omo beds , indicating an absolute age of some 2,5-3,5 m.y. for that site . Sterkfontein is estimated by Cooke to be about 2,5 m.y. and Swartkrans about 2,0 m.y. As in East Africa , the Pleistocene sites of ...
... forms from Kanapoi and Lower Omo beds , indicating an absolute age of some 2,5-3,5 m.y. for that site . Sterkfontein is estimated by Cooke to be about 2,5 m.y. and Swartkrans about 2,0 m.y. As in East Africa , the Pleistocene sites of ...
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... forms . Freedman ( 1957 : 248 ) stated that the more important South African fossil sites originate from ' a geologically short period just following the Plio- Pleistocene boundary ' , the time of depositing between the oldest ( Taung ) ...
... forms . Freedman ( 1957 : 248 ) stated that the more important South African fossil sites originate from ' a geologically short period just following the Plio- Pleistocene boundary ' , the time of depositing between the oldest ( Taung ) ...
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... forms occur in the same blocks of the ' Upper Phase I ' breccia of Makapansgat , they cannot form a chronocline . As we do not know their postcranial skeleton , it is not possible at the moment to assign different ecological niches to ...
... forms occur in the same blocks of the ' Upper Phase I ' breccia of Makapansgat , they cannot form a chronocline . As we do not know their postcranial skeleton , it is not possible at the moment to assign different ecological niches to ...
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alveolar alveoli ANTIQUUS FROM TAUNG archaeol arcus Australopithecinae Australopithecus africanus Background to evolution braincase breccia canine fossae Cape Province cave deposits cercopithecoid Chemeron Beds cranial degree of sexual described Papio differences distal cusps distinctly East African Elephantidae elongated evolution in Africa Faunal Span female skulls fossil Cercopithecoidea Freedman frontal genus Parapapio Haughton incisors indicating jugal arch Kanapoi Kenya Koobi Koobi Fora KURTÉN LEAKEY locality of Australopithecus Lond M² and M³ Maier Makapan Makapansgat male skull maxillary crests morphology muzzle dorsum Nasal aperture nuchal old female orbital breadth Papio izodi Papio wellsi Parapapio antiquus Parapapio broomi Plio Plio-Pleistocene premolars present cranium reduction sexual dimorphism similar in tooth Simopithecus sp skulls of Parapapio small Parapapio jonesi South Africa species of Parapapio Sterkfontein Swartkrans and Kromdraai Table Taung Taung deposit taxa taxon temporal crests third molar tooth row Transvaal Museum true baboon W. W. & CLARK whereas Taung whitei