title: Four-million-year-old hominids from East Lake Turkana, Kenya.
abstract: A piece of mandible and several isolated teeth are reported from fluviatile sediments older than 4 million years at East Lake Turkana. They most closely resemble hominids from Laetoli, Tanzania and Hadar, Ethiopia which have been assigned to Australopithecus afarensis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Coffing
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Feibel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leakey
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D049690:History, Ancient; D015186:Hominidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D008334:Mandible / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D010161:Paleodontology; D014070:Tooth / Q000033:anatomy & histology