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One skull does not a species make

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Figure 1: Map showing some of the East African localities that have yielded fossils of Paranthropus.

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  2. Department of Anthropology, Lehman College, Bronx, 10468, New York, USA

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Delson, E. One skull does not a species make. Nature 389, 445–446 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/38912

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