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IN September 1942, during a brief period of leave from my war-time duties, I was able to revisit the Miocene fossil beds on Rusinga Island in the entrance to the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria. During my stay on the island, I had the good fortune to discover a nearly complete anthropoid mandible in situ. This was removed in its matrix to the Coryndon Museum, Nairobi, and there developed.
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E. African Nat. Hist. Soc., Nairobi, Kenya (in the press).
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LEAKEY, L. A MIOCENE ANTHROPOID MANDIBLE FROM RUSINGA, KENYA. Nature 152, 319–320 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152319a0
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