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Science 30 November 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5855, p. 1363
DOI: 10.1126/science.318.5855.1363a
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Hominid Harems: Big Males Competed for Small Australopithecine Females

Ann Gibbons

A study on page 1443 of this week's issue of Science finds that the males of an extinct species of hominid in South Africa took longer to grow up than females and got much larger, suggesting that top males of this australopithecine species invested energy in bodybuilding in order to possess a harem of females, much like silverback gorillas do today.

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