Australopithecus afarensis, brain imprints (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Australopithecus afarensis, brain imprints

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Brain imprints (shown in white) in fossil skulls of the species Australopithecus afarensis shed new light on the evolution of brain growth and organization. Several years of painstaking fossil reconstruction, and counting of dental growth lines, yielded an exceptionally preserved brain imprint of the Dikika child, and a precise age at death.

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Philipp Gunz, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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