Australopithecus deyiremeda jaws (IMAGE)

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Australopithecus deyiremeda jaws

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Casts of the jaws of Australopithecus deyiremeda, a 3.5 to 3.3 million-year-old human ancestor species from Ethiopia, held by Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, who named the species in 2015 and lead-authored a newly published review of African hominin fossils from the middle Pliocene.

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Photo credit: Laura Dempsey, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

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