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IN a letter published in Nature1, Prof. S. Zuckerman stated categorically that the lower milk canines of the fossil Australopithecinæ found at Taungs and Kromdraai (Australopithecus and Paranthropus) do not differ “in shape and dimensions, relative and absolute”, from that of the chimpanzee. It appears, however, that this statement was based only on the three overall dimensions of height, length and breadth in a series of fifteen specimens2. We have now repeated our previous comparative studies on fifty immature chimpanzee skulls and have confirmed that the milk canine in this series presents a morphological pattern very different from that of the South African fossils.
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Zuckerman, S., Nature, 166, 158 (1950).
Ashton, S. H., and Zuckerman, S., Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., B, 234, 485 (1950).
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CLARK, W. South African Fossil Hominoids. Nature 166, 791–792 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166791a0
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