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. 2017 Nov 8;4(11):171339. doi: 10.1098/rsos.171339

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Figure 5. — Body mass by time with indication of taxonomic group membership. (a) All fossil hominins by narrow taxonomy plus Holocene foragers and (b) zoom in the period 3.6–1.4 Ma to illustrate the difference in body mass around the origin of Homo (only early Homo specimens greater than 1.5 Ma not assigned to Homo erectus s.l. are shown) compared to Australopithecus and Paranthropus estimates.