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The human and pre-human hominid fossils include the remains of four species, the most important being the 1999 discovery of 3. 5-million year old Kenyanthropus platyops.
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The team named him Kenyanthropus platyops -- flat-faced man of Kenya.
The New Old Man 2007
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But until platyops we had but one ancestor in the middle Pleiocene, 3.5 million years ago: Lucy and her afarensis kin.
The New Old Man 2007
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By that reasoning, if the arid landscape beside Turkana's alligator-infested waters yields up more of humankind's long-lost relatives, paleontologists may eventually find that platyops and afarensis had company.
The New Old Man 2007
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"Based on the teeth alone," Leakey told ARCHAEOLOGY, "we believe that K. platyops exploited a different ecological niche, most likely subsisting on softer foods such as fruits and insects."
New Hominid Species Complicates Early Hominid Evolution 2001
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Paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey examines the skull of Kenyanthropus platyops.
New Hominid Species Complicates Early Hominid Evolution 2001
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The position of Kenyanthropus platyops has yet to be determined.
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While the newly found K. platyops is similar in brain size, it differs significantly in facial appearance, having a flat face and small teeth, features, argues Leakey, that appear in a more fully developed form in Homo rudolfensis, a species that thrived in East Africa 2.4 to 1.8 million years ago, and which many view as the beginning of the Homo line.
New Hominid Species Complicates Early Hominid Evolution 2001
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Discovered by Kenyan Justus Erus and Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya during 1998 and 1999, the fossil, named Kenyanthropus platyops, is strikingly different from its contemporary and neighbor Australopithecus afarensis, the species to which the 3. 2-million-year-old Lucy belongs.
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Kenyanthropus platyops means "Flatfaced Man of Kenya."
New Hominid Species Complicates Early Hominid Evolution 2001
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