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Supplement 2: Animated Fossil Hominin Timeline References Supplement 2: Animated Fossil Hominin Timeline References HOLLY M. DUNSWORTH Department of Anthropology, 5500 N. St. Louis Ave., Northeastern Illionois University, Chicago, IL 60625, USA; [email protected] Arambourg, C. 1954. L’hominien fossile de Ternifine (Al- sible ancestor to Neandertals and modern humans. gérie). Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris Science 276, 1392–1395. 239, 893–895. Bermudez de Castro, J.M., Carbonell, E., Caceres, I., Diez, Arambourg, C. 1955. A recent discovery in human pale- J.C., Fernandez-Jalvo, Y., Mosquera M., Olle, A., Ro- ontology: Atlanthropus of Ternifine (Algeria). American dríguez, J., Rodríguez, X.P., Rosas, A., Rosell, J., Sala, Journal of Physical Anthropology 13, 191–201. R., Vergés, J.M., and van der Made, J. 1999. The TD6 Arambourg, C. and Biberson, P. 1956. The fossil human re- (Aurora Stratum) hominid site. 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