Kenyanthropus platyops discovery

Description

Kenyanthropus

Kenyanthropus platyops is a 3.2 to 3.5-million-year-old (Pliocene) hominin fossil discovered in Lake Turkana, Kenya in 1999 by Justus Erus, who was part of Meave Leakey's team.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyanthropus
Leakey, M., et al., 2001, New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages, Nature v. 410, p. 433-440.

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Kenyanthropus platyops discovery

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