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THIS is a preliminary report on research carried out during 1971 and 1972 on the endocranial values of some East African hominids from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and East Lake Rudolf, Kenya. The cranial remains suitable for the reconstruction of volumetrically accurate endocranial casts are as follows: from Olduvai Gorge, hominids OH 7, 9, 12, 13 and 24; from East Lake Rudolf, KNM-ER 732 and 406. Each set of hominid remains required its own reconstructive procedures; a full description of each is unnecessary here but will be published elsewhere. In this communication I report only the results and make some preliminary observations as to their significance. Table 1 shows the cranial capacities found for each hominid. Not all of these results should be equally regarded; some results are only approximations but others are stated with more confidence.
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HOLLOWAY, R. New Endocranial Values for the East African Early Hominids. Nature 243, 97–99 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243097a0
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