Recent developments in the field of palaeoanthropology necessitate the suppression of two
hominin taxa and the introduction of a new species of hominins to help resolve the current …

We report here on the results of a new cladistic analysis of early hominid relationships.
Ingroup taxa includedAustralopithecus afarensisAustralopithecus africanusAustralopithecus …

In explaining his individuality thesis, Michael T. Ghiselin provides extended discussions of
such philosophical topics as definition, the reality of various kinds of groups, and how we …

THE upright posture and obligatory bipedalism of modern humans are unique among living
primates. The evolutionary history of this behaviour has traditionally been pursued by …

Most interpretations of early hominin phylogeny recognize a single early to middle Pliocene
ancestral lineage, best represented by Australopithecus afarensis, which gave rise to a …

Numerous studies use estimates of sexual dimorphism in canine tooth size and body weight
to support speculation about the behavior of australopithecines. However, the range of …

A broad consensus among paleoanthropologists holds that the Homo clade originated in
Africa sometime between 2· 0 and 3· 0 Ma ago. However, a gap in the east African hominid …

Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia Page 1 Chapter 33: Remains of
Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia 285 ——— 1990. The Evolution of Homo …

Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current
knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of …

Phylogenetic trees for the four extant species of African hominoids are presented, based on
mtDNA control region-1 sequences from 1,158 unique haplotypes. We include 83 new …