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Abel (hominid)
Abel
(KT-12/H1) is the name given to the only specimen ever discovered of
Australopithecus bahrelghazali
. Abel was found in January 1995 in
Chad
in the
Kanem Region
by the
paleontologist
Michel Brunet
, who named the fossil "Abel" in memory of his close friend Abel Brillanceau, who had died of
malaria
in 1989.
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