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Proconsul
africanus

OH 5 - Australopithecus boisei

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.


OH 5 - Australopithecus boisei

Aegyptopithecus

KNM-ER 1813

KNM-ER 17000

KNM-ER 406

KNMER 1470

OH 5

OH 24

SK 48

KNM-ER 3733

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