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Metopic suture of Taung (Australopithecus africanus) and its implications for hominin brain evolution

The type specimen for Australopithecus africanus (Taung) includes a natural endocast that reproduces most of the external morphology of the right cerebral hemisphere and a fragment of fossilized face that articulates with the endocast. Despite the fact that Taung died between 3 and 4 y of age, the e...

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Main Authors: Falk, Dean, Zollikofer, Christoph P. E., Morimoto, Naoki, Ponce de León, Marcia S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365196/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22566620
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119752109
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