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OH5
OH 5, "Zinjanthropus",
"Nutcracker Man", Australopithecus
boisei Discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge
in Tanzania (Leakey, 1959). Estimated age is 1.8 million years.
It is an almost complete cranium; with a brain size is about 530
cc. This was the first specimen of this species. Louis Leakey
briefly considered this a human ancestor, but the claim was dropped
when Homo habilis was found soon afterwards.
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