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Telanthropus unearthed

science · 29 April 1949 · 75 years ago

In 1949, the first fragments of the hominid Telanthropus were discovered in a limestone crevasse in Swartkhans, South Africa, by John Talbot Robinson. His find, which resembled homo erectus, was another of the semihuman forms that preceded man.

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