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Sacrum morphology supports taxonomic heterogeneity of Australopithecus africanus at Sterkfontein Member 4

2020-09-23

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The presence of multiple <italic>Australopithecus</italic> species at Sterkfontein Member 4, South Africa (2.07 to 2.61 Ma) is highly contentious. Quantitative assessments of craniodental and postcranial variability remain inconclusive. Using geometric morphometrics, we compared the sacrum of the small-bodied, presumed female subadult <italic>Australopithecus africanus</italic> skeleton...

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Literature Corpus work: b85c94ed-9c22-561f-a27a-fdef250cb353
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-72859/v1

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