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Nature 389, 445-446 (2 October 1997) | doi:10.1038/38912

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Palaeoanthropology:  One skull does not a species make

Eric Delson1

The palaeoanthropology community must look quite Pavlovian to outsiders — we all drool predictably every time a new fossil is discovered. In fact, such new specimens may be important not only in their own right, but in terms of wider implications for the field.

  1. Eric Delson is at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, and in the Department of Anthropology, Lehman College, Bronx, New York 10468, USA.