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Sacrum morphology supports taxonomic heterogeneity of “Australopithecus africanus” at Sterkfontein Member 4

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2021
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Fornai, C., Krenn, V. A., Mitteroecker, P., Webb, N. M., & Haeusler, M. (2021). Sacrum morphology supports taxonomic heterogeneity of “Australopithecus africanus” at Sterkfontein Member 4. Communications Biology, 4, 347. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01850-7

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The presence of multiple Australopithecus species at Sterkfontein Member 4, South Africa (2.07–2.61 Ma), is highly contentious, and quantitative assessments of craniodental and postcranial variability remain inconclusive. Using geometric morphometrics, we compared the sacrum of the small-bodied, presumed female subadult Australopithecus africanus skeleton Sts 14 to the large, alleged male adult StW 431 against a geographically diverse sample of modern humans, and two species of Pan, Gorilla, and Pongo. The probabilities of sampling mo

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  • Fornai, Cinzia
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  • Krenn, Viktoria A
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  • Mitteroecker, Philipp
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  • Webb, Nicole M
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  • Haeusler, Martin
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4

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347

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2021-12-01

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2021-03-18

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2399-3642

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Fornai, C., Krenn, V. A., Mitteroecker, P., Webb, N. M., & Haeusler, M. (2021). Sacrum morphology supports taxonomic heterogeneity of “Australopithecus africanus” at Sterkfontein Member 4. Communications Biology, 4, 347. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01850-7

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