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FIG. 3 in Virtual reconstruction and comparative study of the face of StW 573 ("Little Foot")

  • 1. Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes et Paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, 6 Rue Michel Brunet, F-86000 Poitiers (France) and Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam St, Cambridge CB2 1QH (United Kingdom) and School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 (South Africa) amelie.beaudet@univ-poitiers.fr (corresponding author)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes et Paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, 6 Rue Michel Brunet, F-86000 Poitiers (France
  • 3. Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes et Paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, 6 Rue Michel Brunet, F-86000 Poitiers (France)
  • 4. Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, CNRS, Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours, 5, rue T. Lefebvre, TSA 21103, F-86073 Poitiers Cedex 9 (France)
  • 5. Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE (United Kingdom)
  • 6. Imaging and Analysis Centre, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD (United Kingdom) and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 rue des Martyrs, F-38000 Grenoble (France) Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE (United Kingdom) and National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 (United States)
  • 7. Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 (South Africa)
  • 8. Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 (South Africa) and Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 464 Campbell Hall Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 (United States)

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FIG. 3. — Comparison of the StW 573 cranium with the Australopithecus africanus specimen Sts 5, the Australopithecus afarensis specimen A.L. 444-2, the Australopithecus anamensis specimen MRD-VP-1/1 (courtesy of Y. Haile-Selassie) and extant Gorilla, Homo, Pan and Pongo specimens. From left to right, renderings are illustrated in anterior, superior, left lateral, and right lateral views. Images not to scale. Credits: A. Beaudet.

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Published as part of Beaudet, Amélie, Dupont, Emeline, Guy, Franck, Dumoncel, Jean, Atwood, Robert, Fernandez, Vincent, Clarke, Ronald & Heaton, Jason L., 2026, Virtual reconstruction and comparative study of the face of StW 573 ("Little Foot"), pp. 43-56 in Comptes Rendus Palevol 25 (3) on page 49, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a3, http://zenodo.org/record/18835121

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