Not to be used in museums, exhibitions, or articles about Elisabeth Daynes or the Atelier Daynes. No use in any context outside of mainstream science without the express permission of Atelier Daynes. Front covers or private use require clearance. Mandatory credit. Paranthropus boisei model. Reconstruction of a specimen of Paranthropus boisei. This hominin, which is sometimes classified as Australopithecus boisei, lived from 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago in eastern Africa. P. boisei is one of several extinct species that form an early part of the human evolutionary tree. Reconstruction by Elisabeth Daynes of the Daynes Studio, Paris, France. MANDATORY CREDIT.

Paranthropus: How did this bizarre, ape-like early hominin survive for so long? – Canada Boosts

P.PLAILLY/E.DAYNES/SCIEN​CE PHOTO LIBRARY IT ISN’T typically that an esteemed professor units out to research a scientific discovery made by a 15-year-old boy, however in 1938 Robert Broom made an exception. The British-born palaeontologist was keenly conscious that Nineteen Thirties South Africa was gaining a status for its exceptionally primitive-looking hominin fossils. So, when he heard…

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