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Years of careful excavation were needed to free Little Foot from the rock of South Africa's Sterkfontein cave system. Catalogued as StW 573, the unusually complete australopithecine skeleton was recognized through bones identified gradually beginning in the 1990s. Dating studies place the specimen a...
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Exceptionally complete australopithecine skeleton with major evolutionary value; long excavation and taxonomic debates moderate consensus.
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A juvenile skeleton discovered by Kamoya Kimeu near Lake Turkana in Kenya in 1984 provides an unusually detailed view of early Homo. Known as Turkana Boy and catalogued as KNM-WT 15000, the individual lived about 1.6 million years ago. Researchers commonly assign the specimen to Homo ergaster or to...
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Most complete early Homo skeleton, central to growth, body plan, and life history research.
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