New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6827, 2001, Pages 433-440

  Leakey, Meave G ^a   Spoor, Fred ^b   Brown, Frank H ^c   Gathogo, Patrick N ^c   Kiarie, Christopher ^a   Leakey, Louise N ^a   McDougall, Ian ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEW GENUS; PHYLOGENY; PLIOCENE; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; SKULL;

AFRICA;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035932491     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35068500     Document Type: Article

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