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Australopithecus afarensis endocasts suggest ape-like brain organization and prolonged brain growth
- View ORCID ProfilePhilipp Gunz1,*,†,
- View ORCID ProfileSimon Neubauer1,*,
- View ORCID ProfileDean Falk2,3,
- View ORCID ProfilePaul Tafforeau4,
- View ORCID ProfileAdeline Le Cabec1,4,
- View ORCID ProfileTanya M. Smith5,
- View ORCID ProfileWilliam H. Kimbel6,
- View ORCID ProfileFred Spoor1,7,8 and
- View ORCID ProfileZeresenay Alemseged9
- 1Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
- 2Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA.
- 3School for Advanced Research, 660 Garcia St., Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA.
- 4European Synchotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS-40220, F-38043, Grenoble cedex 09, France.
- 5Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd., Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia.
- 6Institute of Human Origins, and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
- 7Centre for Human Evolution Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
- 8Department of Anthropology, UCL, London WC1H 0BW, UK.
- 9Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
- ↵†Corresponding author. Email: gunz{at}eva.mpg.de
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Science Advances 01 Apr 2020:
Vol. 6, no. 14, eaaz4729
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz4729
Vol. 6, no. 14, eaaz4729
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz4729
Philipp Gunz
1Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Simon Neubauer
1Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Dean Falk
2Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA.
3School for Advanced Research, 660 Garcia St., Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA.
Paul Tafforeau
4European Synchotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS-40220, F-38043, Grenoble cedex 09, France.
Adeline Le Cabec
1Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
4European Synchotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS-40220, F-38043, Grenoble cedex 09, France.
Tanya M. Smith
5Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd., Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia.
William H. Kimbel
6Institute of Human Origins, and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
Fred Spoor
1Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
7Centre for Human Evolution Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
8Department of Anthropology, UCL, London WC1H 0BW, UK.
Zeresenay Alemseged
9Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
