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ONE of the difficulties in making comparisons of the Taxings and the Sterkfontein and Kromdraai apes has been that the Taungs ape is only known by the skull of a 4–5-year-old child, while the other apes are only known by adult specimens and a fragment of the jaw of a 10-year-old Sterkfontein ape. Now fortunately we have a little further evidence.
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BROOM, R. Mandible of a Young Paranthropus Child. Nature 147, 607–608 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147607a0
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