Australopithecus afarensis, fossil skull (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Australopithecus afarensis, fossil skull

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Brain imprints in fossil skulls of the species Australopithecus afarensis (famous for "Lucy", and the "Dikika child" from Ethiopia pictured here in frontal and lateral view) shed new light on the evolution of brain growth and organization.

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Philipp Gunz, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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