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Nature 260, 293-297 (25 March 1976) | doi:10.1038/260293a0; Received 25 September 1975; Accepted 9 February 1976
Plio—Pleistocene hominid discoveries in Hadar, Ethiopia
D. C. Johanson* & M. Taieb†
- *Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
- †Laboratoire de Géologie du Quaternaire, CNRS, Meudon-Bellevue, France
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Abstract
The International Afar Research Expedition has now recovered remains of twelve hominid individuals from geological deposits estimated to be 
3.0 Myr in Hadar, Ethiopia. A partial skeleton represents the most complete hominid known from this period. The collection suggests that Homo and Australopithecus coexisted as early as 3.0 Myr ago.
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