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Kanam|kəˈnɑːm|
The name of a place in Kenya, on the south shore of the Kavirondo gulf of Lake Victoria, used attrib. in Kanam jaw, man, mandible, to designate the fossil hominid remains found there by L. S. B. Leakey in 1932.
1933L. S. B. Leakey in Man XXXIII. 200 (title) The status of the Kanam mandible and the Kanjera skulls. 1935― Stone Age Races Kenya ii. 11 Further examination of the Kanam mandible has led me to separate it from the species Homo sapiens and to give it a new specific name Homo kanamensis. Ibid. 148/2 (index) Kanam Man. 1952M. R. Sahni Man in Evolution x. 246 If the evidence of the Kanam jaw from East Africa were relied upon, it would take us back to the Lower Pleistocene. 1965M. H. Day Guide to Fossil Man 145 Kanam man. Ibid. 147 Originally Keith thought..that the Kanam mandible was evidence of the early development of a modern type of man... Later Keith said that the small front teeth of the Kanam jaw suggested a closer relationship to the australopithecines than to modern man. 1968P. V. Tobias in G. Kurth Evolution & Hominisation (ed. 2) 180 A re-assessment of the morphology of the Kanam mandibular fragments convinced me that{ddd}the specimen clearly contains a number of archaic features which relate it most closely to the Upper Pleistocene mandible from Dire-Dawa, in the Harrar district of Ethiopia. |