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... Australopithecines During the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene epochs protohuman terrestrial hominids became abundant in southern and eastern Afri- ca. Protohumans were probably also present throughout the early Pleistocene in Asia ...
... Australopithecines During the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene epochs protohuman terrestrial hominids became abundant in southern and eastern Afri- ca. Protohumans were probably also present throughout the early Pleistocene in Asia ...
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... australopithecine posture differed from human posture ( Jenkins 1972 ) . All australopithecines possessed fully homi- nid jaws and teeth . Their dental arcade was parabolic ; their canines projected slightly or not at all ; their ...
... australopithecine posture differed from human posture ( Jenkins 1972 ) . All australopithecines possessed fully homi- nid jaws and teeth . Their dental arcade was parabolic ; their canines projected slightly or not at all ; their ...
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... australopithecines were evolutionary dead ends . Richard Leakey's evidence for three or four separate phylogenetic lines of hominids living in the same general region for upward of 2 million years has upset traditional views of the ...
... australopithecines were evolutionary dead ends . Richard Leakey's evidence for three or four separate phylogenetic lines of hominids living in the same general region for upward of 2 million years has upset traditional views of the ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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