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How do hominin fossils get their numbers?

Numbers for fossils, like AL 288-1, are nowhere near as iconic as names like “Lucy”, but have an important place in the study of paleoanthropology.

How do hominin fossils get their numbers?
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Gathering the Ancestors

The largest exhibition of hominin fossils in history brought together science, the public, and geopolitics at the height of the Cold War.

Sts 5 skull seen from left front
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A visit to the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

I took some time out from a research symposium and presentation to take photos of a marvelous collection of anthropological heritage.

A sculpted head of a life-sized figure in the Maya gallery