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New cranium of Homo erectus from Lake Ndutu, Tanzania

A Corrigendum to this article was published on 11 November 1976

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I DESCRIBE here the humanoid cranium recovered by Mturi1 during excavations at Lake Ndutu in northern Tanzania. A fuller description will be published elsewhere.

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CLARK, R. New cranium of Homo erectus from Lake Ndutu, Tanzania. Nature 262, 485–487 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262485a0

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