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A PARTIAL cranium of an australopithecine has been described by Carney, Hill, Miller, and Walker1 from Chesowanja in Kenya, a new Pleistocene locality which has been dated between 1.1 and 1.2 million years. The explicit statement, both written and in the reconstructions in this report, that the Chesowanja cranium is a large brained robust australopithecine—an evolutionary novelty as far as the robust lineage is concerned—is of considerable importance. I interpret the evidence differently.
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Carney, J., Hill, A., Miller, J. A., and Walker, A., Nature, 230, 509 (1971).
Leakey, R. E. F., Nature, 231, 241 (1971).
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SZALAY, F. Biological Level of Organization of the Chesowanja Robust Australopithecine. Nature 234, 229–230 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234229a0
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