New fossils from Koobi Fora in northern Kenya confirm taxonomic diversity in early Homo

Meave G. Leakey (), Fred Spoor (), M. Christopher Dean, Craig S. Feibel, Susan C. Antón, Christopher Kiarie and Louise N. Leakey
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Meave G. Leakey: Turkana Basin Institute, PO Box 24926, Nairobi 00502, Kenya
Fred Spoor: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
M. Christopher Dean: University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Craig S. Feibel: Rutgers University
Susan C. Antón: New York University
Christopher Kiarie: Turkana Basin Institute, PO Box 24926, Nairobi 00502, Kenya
Louise N. Leakey: Turkana Basin Institute, PO Box 24926, Nairobi 00502, Kenya

Nature, 2012, vol. 488, issue 7410, 201-204

Abstract: Three newly discovered hominin fossils—a well-preserved face of a late juvenile, a nearly complete mandible and a mandibular fragment—aged between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old, confirm the presence of two contemporary species of early Homo, in addition to H. erectus, in the early Pleistocene of eastern Africa.

Date: 2012
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