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Science 7 April 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3771, pp. 64 - 66
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3771.64
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Hominid Humeral Fragment from Early Pleistocene of Northwestern Kenya

Bryan Patterson 1 and W. W. Howells 2

1 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
2 Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

The distal end of a hominoid humerus was recovered from early Pleistocene sediments in the Kanapoi drainage near the southern end of Lake Rudolf. Lava capping the sediments yielded a potassium/argon date of 2.5 million years. The fragment can be distinguished on inspection from gorilla and orangutan; discriminate analysis of humeri of Homo and Pan assigns it as hominid. From other evidence we consider it more likely to represent Australopithecus s.s. than Paranthropus.


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