Evolution of the genus homo

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2009, Pages 67-92

  Tattersall, Ian ^a   Schwartz, Jeffrey H ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hominid diversity; Hominid systematics; Human evolution; Human fossil record; Paleoanthropology

Indexed keywords

HOMINID DIVERSITY; HOMINID SYSTEMATICS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUMAN FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY;

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HETEROGENEITY; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 67651100700     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100202     Document Type: Review

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