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Two views of a natural endocranial cast articulated with a fragmentary skull of Australopithecus africanus, which includes the left maxilla, the orbital area and most of the skull base. Its endocranial volume was 485 cm3. This specimen is cataloged by the Transvaal Museum as TM 1511 and was formerly considered the holotype of a separate species, Plesianthropus transvaalensis. It was first discovered in South Africa by G. W. Barlow and described by Robert Broom in 1938. Photo credit: José Braga and Didier Descouens