Table 2.

Casts of fossil specimens

Fossil taxa and specimen numbers	Collection
Australopithecus afarensis: A.L. 288-1as	NHMP
Unknown hominin: OH-8, KNM-ER 1464, KNM-ER 1476	NHMP
Homo floresiensis: LB1	NHMP
Homo neanderthalensis: SP4B (Spy 4), EM 3519 (Tabun C1)	NHMP
Homo sapiens: Clarke Howell OMO*	NHMP

NHMP, Department of Earth Sciences (previously Palaeontology), The Natural History Museum, London.

^*The Clarke Howell OMO specimen stems from the Omo deposits in Ethiopia, and specifically from the ‘pelvic corner’ region of the deposits. These same deposits yielded other fossil specimens that were assigned to early anatomically modern Homo sapiens (Stringer, 2003; McDougall et al. 2005; Pearson et al. 2008). These other fossil specimens have been dated to between 104 ± 7 kyr and 196 ± 2 kyr (McDougall et al. 2005). The Clark Howell material from Omo has not yet been dated, and so the exact age of this specimen is unknown. The specimen was classified as anatomically modern Homo sapiens.