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PILBEAM rejects1 my recent estimate of cranial capacity for Homo africanus2. As I understand his comment, he disputes treatment of Olduvai hominid 7 with the South African gracile australopithecines as one statistical population because they may belong to separate subspecies.
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WOLPOFF, M. Taxonomy and Cranial Capacity of Olduvai Hominid 7 (continued). Nature 227, 747 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227747a0
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