Human Origins: Australopithecus
The Ancients
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The Origins of Osteopithecus
The first specimen the first fossil that was ever described as osteopithecus was a three-year-old child from South Africa and this is also a child but now from Ethiopia very close to Hadar where all these other things were found in a place indeed called Dikika. It has a complete skull meaning acranium the upper part and an amenable it had a complete brain case and where the brain case is a little bit missing you can just see a beautiful impression of the brain underneathIt's so well preserved that it was found as it fossilized upside down and on its pallet. I sort of helped pioneer this technique because I did my PhD on inner ears inside the cr
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