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Little Foot, catalogued as StW 573, is an unusually complete australopithecine skeleton recovered from the Sterkfontein cave system in South Africa. Its bones were identified gradually beginning in the 1990s and required many years of careful excavation from surrounding rock; dating studies place it...
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Exceptionally complete australopithecine skeleton with major evolutionary value; long excavation and taxonomic debates moderate consensus.
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Turkana Boy, catalogued as KNM-WT 15000, is a remarkably complete early Homo skeleton discovered in 1984 near Lake Turkana in Kenya by Kamoya Kimeu. Usually assigned to Homo ergaster or African Homo erectus, the juvenile individual lived about 1.6 million years ago and had long legs and human-like b...
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Most complete early Homo skeleton, central to growth, body plan, and life history research.
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