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Boskop
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Boskop [ˈbɒskɒp]
n
(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology)
a.  a prehistoric race of the late Pleistocene period in sub-Saharan Africa
b.  (as modifier) Boskop man
[named after Boskop, in the Transvaal, where remains of this race were first discovered]


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Unclear as to whether the Boskops belonged to a species separate from our own, Lynch and Granger suggest that, because their brains were nearly 30 percent larger than ours (with an average cranial capacity of 1750 cc), their prefrontal cortices may have measured as much as 53 percent greater.
 
 
 
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