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Photo of the Day #446: Chimpanzee skeleton

By laelaps on December 28, 2008.

The skeleton of a young chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), photographed at the American Museum of Natural History. If you look at the right first incisor carefully, you can see evidence of hypoplasia.

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