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THE great collection of skulls of Paranthropus crassidens made at Swartkrans in the past couple of years gives us not only nearly every detail in the structure of the skull and dentition, but also very satisfactory evidence of the sequence of the eruption of the permanent teeth.
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BROOM, R., ROBINSON, J. Eruption of the Permanent Teeth in the South African Fossil Ape-men. Nature 167, 443 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167443a0
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