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Microevolution in our megadont relative

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Cranial variation in South African specimens of Paranthropus robustus illustrate temporal changes that suggest how the morphology of this hominin fossil species related to its palaeoenvironment and microevolutionary processes.

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Fig. 1: A schematic of temporally patterned morphological variation and potential sampling biases for two populations of P. robustus at two time periods, t1 and t2, separated by 200,000 years.

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Potts, R. Microevolution in our megadont relative. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 14–16 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01339-2

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