Four-million-year-old hominids from East Lake Turkana, Kenya.
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.
Coffing
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Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
Feibel
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Leakey
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Walker
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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