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Discoveries by the Chicago contingent of the 1967 and 1968 International Research Expedition to the Omo Valley extend the fossil records of australopithecines back to between 3 and 4 million years ago.
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HOWELL, F. Remains of Hominidae from Pliocene/Pleistocene Formations in the Lower Omo Basin, Ethiopia. Nature 223, 1234–1239 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2231234a0
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