Lower jaws (mandibles) from North Africa, illustrating variation among fossil hominins and modern humans (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Lower jaws (mandibles) from North Africa, illustrating variation among fossil hominins and modern humans

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Lower jaws (mandibles) from North Africa, illustrating variation among fossil hominins and modern humans. The fossils shown are Tighennif 3 from Algeria (upper left), ThI-GH-10717 from Thomas Quarry in Morocco (upper right), and Jebel Irhoud 11 from Morocco (lower left), compared with a mandible from a recent modern human (lower right). All specimens are shown at the same scale, allowing direct comparison of their size and shape.

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© Philipp Gunz, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology

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