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The Mojokerto skull is one of the most important clues about brain size development in Homo erectus. At less than 4 years old, its brain was already larger than many adults known for the species.

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2021-04-06

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2021-04-06

The discovery of the MLD 18 mandible in 1953 followed the sorting and movement of more than 5000 tons of miners' dump material. The fossil comes from one of the older adult individuals known for Australopithecus africanus.

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2021-04-05

The three bones of the Swanscombe skull were found across 20 years within a gravel layer in the course of the ancient Thames River. The skull belonged to an early relative of Neandertals.

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2021-04-02

The La Quina 18 individual is one of the most complete skulls of a Neandertal child. Impressed with the Mousterian stone tools there, Léon Henri-Martin bought the site and excavated there for thirty years.

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2021-03-31

In 2002, a travertine quarry near Kocabaş, Turkey, sliced through a Homo erectus skull. Only one 35-mm segment was identified. The rest of this 1.4-million-year-old skull might possibly be tiled into someone's floor.

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2021-03-30

Some of the most significant fossil collections are those that represent at least some of the anatomy of several individuals. Most scientists interpret the fossils from Ngandong, Indonesia, as Homo erectus individuals just before 100,000 years ago.

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2021-03-29

Apidima 1 may be the earliest European fossil aligned with African ancestors of modern people, more than 210,000 years old. But some specialists suggest it was an ancestor of Neandertals. Of course, it may be both.

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2021-03-26

The Dmanisi site has some of the most informative postcranial remains of Homo erectus, telling us about the body size and locomotion of this species. D4167 comes from an individual of around 155 cm in stature.

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2021-03-24

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2021-03-24

The late André Keyser was faced with the problem of extricating the DNH 7 skull from an ant colony and tangle of plant roots. The pieces today comprise the most complete known skull of Paranthropus robustus

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2021-03-22

The travertine site at Bilzingsleben, Germany, has fossils from straight-tusked elephants, woolly rhinos, and macaques dating to an interglacial probably 400,000 years ago. The population left tools and remains of at least two individuals.

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2021-03-22

The MH2 mandible is still being built, fragment by fragment, as pieces are recovered from Malapa and prepared in the lab. The skull of this adult Australopithecus sediba individual may be found within the breccia as well.

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2021-03-21

KNM-ER 3733 helped establish that evolution was a branching tree and not a straight line. Alan Walker famously cracked the skull into three pieces with a chisel to remove the hard rock from inside, enabling reconstruction of the face.

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2021-03-20

As the smallest mandible in the highly variable Sterkfontein Member 4 sample, Stw 404 has been a key fossil in understanding whether all these fossils represent Australopithecus africanus, or some of them may represent a second, larger species.

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2021-03-19

The Canadian anatomist Davidson Black died at his desk in 1934 with the skull of Sinanthropus from Locus E beside him. This skull was unearthed by Wenzhong Pei in 1929 deep within a fissure cave in Longgushan, or "Dragon Bone Hill"

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2021-03-17

Some skulls of Homo erectus have exceptionally thick cranial bones. This individual from Sangiran, Indonesia, has a thickened bar of bone on the back, known as the nuchal torus, defining the area above the trapezius muscle.

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2021-03-16

The AL 400-1 jaw was chewed by a carnivore before it was fossilized 3.3 million years ago. This individual is attributed to Australopithecus afarensis.

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2021-03-14

BOU-VP-16/1 is one of three skulls from near Herto, Ethiopia, that bear cutmarks or other signs of mortuary practices. The discoveries came near some of the latest Acheulean handaxe-dominated assemblages in Africa, around 155,000 years old.

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2021-03-10

Estimates of the age of fossil children have come a long way in 50 years. Still, we have much to learn about the variation in enamel growth rates in some species, including Australopithecus afarensis. The LH 2 child died at around 3.25 years of age.

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2021-03-08