Selam Back View (IMAGE)

California Academy of Sciences

Selam Back View

Caption

This is the back view of Selam's skeleton (Australopithecus afarensis). Dorsal view of the cranium; the vertebrae are in the middle, and the left and right ribs are visible on either side of the vertebrae, as are both the complete right and the fragmentary left shoulder blades.

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Zeray Alemseged / Dikika Research Project

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