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KINZEY's letter to Nature1 calls for a reply. I do not criticize him, of course, for preferring to translate my visual “basic rectangle” into a standard type of index, which he calls “the BRM index”, but it is his attempt to utilize this index to refute my claim that Kenyapithecus africanus is taxonomically within the family Hominidae that requires critical comment.
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Kinzey, W. G., Nature, 228, 289 (1970).
Le Gros Clark, W. E., and Leakey, L. S. B., Fossil Mammals of Africa, No. 1 (British Museum (Natural History), London, 1951).
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LEAKEY, L. Basic Rectangle of the Mandible in the Hominoidae. Nature 231, 60 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231060a0
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