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Paranthropus boisei was Capable of Tool Making, New Fossil Suggests


Paleoanthropologists have unearthed and examined a hominin partial skeleton that includes hand and foot bones unambiguously associated with skull elements of Paranthropus boisei, a species of early hominin that lived in East Africa between 2.3 and 1.2 million years ago.

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