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THOUGH the brain of the young Australopithecus is about 500 c.c. and that of the adult perhaps 600 c.c. or more, the brain of the type Plesianthropus about 450 c.c, and of the beautiful female skull about 415 c.c, it has been suspected that some male brains may have been very much larger. The Kromdraai skull has a brain that we estimated may have been about 650 c.c. ; but with little more than the temporal bone and the middle line as evidence the determination is not as convincing as one would like.
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BROOM, R., ROBINSON, J. Size of the Brain in the Ape-Man, Plesianthropus. Nature 161, 438 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161438a0
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