In this review of the evidence for and against taxic diversity within the hominin clade, we
begin by looking at the logic and the history of simple “ladder‐like” interpretations of the …

This review begins by setting out the context and the scope of human evolution. Several
classes of evidence, morphological, molecular, and genetic, support a particularly close …

Conventional wisdom concerning the extinction of Paranthropus suggests that these species
developed highly derived morphologies as a consequence of specializing on a diet …

Paranthropus boisei is a hominin taxon with a distinctive cranial and dental morphology. Its
hypodigm has been recovered from sites with good stratigraphic and chronological control …

Determining the diet of an extinct species is paramount in any attempt to reconstruct its
paleoecology. Because the distribution and mechanical properties of food items may impact …

Underground storage organs (USOs) have been proposed as critical fallback foods for early
hominins in savanna, but there has been little discussion as to which habitats would have …

Paranthropus robustus is a small-brained extinct hominin from South Africa characterized by
derived, robust craniodental morphology. The most complete known skull of this species is …

Abstract The Omo‐Turkana Basin, including the hominin fossil sites around Lake Turkana
and the sites along the lower reaches of the Omo River, has made and continues to make an …

This paper presents a review of, and new data concerning, the age of Australopithecus in
southern Africa. Current dating suggests that Makapansgat Limeworks is the oldest hominin …

Hennig differentiated parent-offspring, or tokogenetic, relationships among organisms within
a population, which are network-like, or reticulate, in their structure, from phylogenetic …