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Australopithecus sediba
Australopithecus sediba The skeletal remains of MH2, an adult female belonging to the extinct species Australopithecus sediba; the bones were discovered by Lee Berger at Malapa Cave, South Africa, in 2008.

Australopithecus sediba

fossil hominin
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Australopithecus sediba, extinct primate species that inhabited southern Africa beginning about 1.98 million years ago and that shares several morphological characteristics in common with the hominin genus Homo. The first specimens were found and identified by American-born South African paleoanthropologist Lee Berger in 2008 at Malapa Cave system in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site in northeastern South Africa. This discovery was viewed by scientists as a potential turning point in paleoanthropology, because the...

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