More than 30 specimens are known, including more than 15 skulls and several complete postcranial skeletons.
Further morphological and molecular studies including more specimens from putative contact zones and faster nuclear markers are expected to give S. cf. arabicus formal recognition.
Together they assembled a collection that now includes more than 33,000 wood specimens (including fossils) from more than 300 families from around the world, and over 50,000 microscope slides of wood and of other plant parts.
Includes more than 33,000 wood specimens (including fossils) from more than 300 families from around the world, and over 50,000 microscope slides of wood and of other plant parts.
The total number of objects, works of art and specimens at the Smithsonian is estimated at nearly 138 million, including more than 127 million specimens and artifacts at the National Museum of Natural History.
A retrospective natural history study was set up using a Belgian laboratory database including more than 800,000 liquid cytology specimens.
Still photographs documenting these discoveries, including more field shots as well as laboratory shots of specimens and scientists, are all available through David L. Brill Photography, 552 Hwy.
The discovery in northern Kenya of 38 more fossil specimens, including skull and tooth fragments, has enabled scientists to draw a fuller picture of the ancestral species, Australopithecus anamensis.
He then performed a morphological and metric test that compared the Misliya fossil with about 30 other specimens, including fossils of Neanderthals, Homo erectus, more recent Homo sapiens, and other hominins that lived in the Middle Pleistocene in Asia, Africa Europe and North America.
This latter species, known from Ethiopia and, possibly, Kenya at 4.4 million years ago, is the best known of the four and is represented by more than 100 specimens, including a partial skeleton (e.g., White et al. 2009).
