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I DESCRIBE here the humanoid cranium recovered by Mturi1 during excavations at Lake Ndutu in northern Tanzania. A fuller description will be published elsewhere.
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CLARK, R. New cranium of Homo erectus from Lake Ndutu, Tanzania. Nature 262, 485–487 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262485a0
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