Fossil WLH-50 is a partial cranium fossil that was discovered in 1982, in the Willandra Lakes Region of Australia and was reconstructed by Alan Thorne. Speculation surrounds the exact age of this fossil hominid and a debate concerning its ancestry in relation to other late Pleistocene hominids, as well as, Ngandong hominids due to their close resemblance to one another.
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- Hawks, J; Oh, S; Hunley, K; Dobson, S; Cabana, G; Dayalu, P; Wolpoff, M. H. (2000). "An Australasian test of the recent African origin theory using the WLH-50 calvarium". Journal of Human Evolution. 39 (1): 1–22. Can be read here.
- Grün, R; Spooner, N; Magee, J; Thorne, A; Simpson, J; Yan, G; Mortimer, G (2011). "Stratigraphy and chronology of the WLH 50 human remains, Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, Australia". Journal of Human Evolution. 60 (5): 597–604. Can be read here.