KNM-WT 17000 (also known as "The Black Skull") is a fossilized adult skull of the species Paranthropus aethiopicus. It was discovered in West Turkana,...
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earlier A. afarensis. P. aethiopicus is known primarily by the skull KNM WT 17000 from Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, Kenya, as well as some jawbones from Koobi...
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belongs to the "Black Skull", Paranthropus aethiopicus field number KNM WT 17000, the earliest known robust hominid ancestor and the oldest robust australopithecine...
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reclassified it as A. africanus. In 1986, after the discovery of the skull KNM WT 17000 by English anthropologist Alan Walker and Richard Leakey classified it...
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"Kenyanthropus platyops: KNM WT 40000". www.efossils.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) "KNM-WT 40000". 23 January 2010....
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both the appearance of the sagittal crest and post-orbital constriction. KNM-ER 406, the skull of a Paranthropus, brain volume estimated to 410 cm3 with...
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Africa and P. aethiopicus is only confidently identified from the skull KNM WT 17000 and a few jaws and isolated teeth, it is debated if P. aethiopicus should...
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Richard Leakey found that the 2.5-million-year-old East African skull KNM WT 17000—which they assigned to a new species A. aethiopicus—was ancestral to...
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discovery of Turkana Boy, Leakey and his team made the discovery of a skull (KNM WT 17000, known as "Black Skull") of a new species, Australopithecus aethiopicus...
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Institution's Human Origins Program. 1994-01-01. Retrieved 2023-08-19. "KNM-WT 17000". The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program. 1985-01-01. Retrieved...
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