The Single Species Hypothesis: Truly Dead and Pushing Up Bushes, or Still Twitching and Ripe for Resuscitation?

Human Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 485-502

  Hunt, Kevin D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological species; Hominin; Human evolution; Species definition; Speciosity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BABOON; BODY SIZE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CHIMPANZEE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOBINAE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOMINID; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; RESUSCITATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SKELETON; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; THEORY;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; CERCOPITHECUS MITIS; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0345356981     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2003.0055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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