Moreover, the use of juvenile specimens as type specimens has been a common practice in palaeoanthropology: the type specimens of Homo habilis and Australopithecus africanus are themselves juvenile specimens.
Povrh toga, definiranje juvenilnih jedinki kao tipskih primjeraka česta je praksa u paleoantropologiji: tipski primjerci Homo habilisa i Australopithecusa africanusa i sami su juvenilne jedinke.