Abstract
Four specimens collected last year from East Rudolf are provisionally attributed to the genus Homo. One, a cranium KNM-ER 1470, is probably 2.9 million years old.
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LEAKEY, R. Evidence for an Advanced Plio-Pleistocene Hominid from East Rudolf, Kenya. Nature 242, 447–450 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242447a0
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