Telanthropus capensis
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Telanthropus capensis was the name given by the archaeologist John T. Robinson and Robert Broom to a species of hominid, now thought to belong to Homo erectus.[1] Robinson discovered a jaw fragment, SK 45, in September 1949 in Swartkrans, South Africa. In 1957, Simonetta proposed to re-designate it Homo erectus, and Robinson (1961) agreed.[2]
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- ^ Robinson, J. T. (1953). "The Nature of Telanthropus capensis". Nature 171 (4340): 33. doi:10.1038/171033a0.
- ^ Frederick E. Grine; John G. Fleagle; Richard E. Leakey (1 Jun 2009). "Chapter 2: Homo habilis—A Premature Discovery: Remember by One of Its Founding Fathers, 42 Years Later". The First Humans: Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo. Springer. pp. 7.
[edit] External links
Telanthropus capensis at Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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