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Twenty new hominid specimens were recovered from the East Rudolf area in 1973. New evidence suggests the presence of at least three hominid lineages in the Plio-Pleistocene of East Africa.
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Leakey, R. Further evidence of Lower Pleistocene hominids from East Rudolf, North Kenya, 1973. Nature 248, 653–656 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248653a0
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