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IN NATURE of September 19, Dr. R. Broom, of Pretoria, has given an account of the important discovery of a Pleistocene anthropoid skull at Sterckfontein, near Johannesburg, Transvaal, and has supplemented it simultaneously by a series of excellent photographs both of the site and specimen which have appeared in the Illustrated London News. In NATURE of October 24, p. 719, he has given a figure and description of the teeth. He maintains that the Sterckfontein specimen belongs to the same genus Australopithecus, although to another species, as the Taungs ape, and that both are hominoid, and not nearly related to any of the existing species of anthropoids.
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SCHWARZ, E. The Sterckfontein Ape. Nature 138, 969 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138969a0
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