Australopithecus deyiremeda (IMAGE)

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Australopithecus deyiremeda

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The left half of the lower jaw of Australopithecus deyiremeda (BRT-VP-3/14), a 3.5 to 3.3 million-year-old human ancestor species discovered by the Woranso-Mille project led by Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is discussed in a newly published review of African hominins from the middle Pliocene.

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Photo credit: Yohannes Haile-Selassie

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