New fossils from Koobi Fora in northern Kenya confirm taxonomic diversity in early Homo

Nature

Volumn 488, Issue 7410, 2012, Pages 201-204

  Leakey, Meave G ^a,b   Spoor, Fred ^c,d   Dean, M Christopher ^d   Feibel, Craig S ^e   Antón, Susan C ^f   Kiarie, Christopher ^a   Leakey, Louise N ^a,b  

^a Turkana Basin Institute   (Kenya)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; JUVENILE; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRESERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CANINE TOOTH; FOSSIL; FOSSIL HOMININ; HOMINID; HUMAN; INCISOR; MANDIBLE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; FACE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KENYA; MANDIBLE; PALATE; SKULL; TOOTH;

KENYA;

HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 84864702731     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11322     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Leakey, R. E. F. Evidence of an advanced Plio-Pleistocene hominid from East Rudolf, Kenya. Nature 242, 447-450 (1973).
2. Gibbard, P. L. et al. Formal ratification of the quaternary system/period and the Pleistocene series/epoch with a base at 2.58 Ma. J. Quaternary Sci. 25, 96-102 (2010).
3. Wood, B. Koobi Fora Research Project Vol. 4: Hominid Cranial Remains (Clarendon, 1991).
4. Howell, F. C. in Evolution of African Mammals (eds Maglio, V. J. & Cooke, H. B. S.) 154-248 (Harvard Univ. Press, 1978).
5. Johanson, D. C. et al. New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge. Nature 327, 205-209 (1987).
6. Tobias, P. V. Olduvai Gorge Volume 4: The Skulls and Endocasts of Homo habilis. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991).
7. Suwa, G., White, T. D. & Howell, F. C. Mandibular post-canine dentition from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia: c rown morphology, taxonomic allocation, and Plio-Pleistocene hominid evolution. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 101, 247-282 (1996).
8. Miller, J. M. Craniofacial variation in Homo habilis: an analysis of the evidence for multiple species. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 112, 103-128 (2000).
9. Suwa, G. et al. Early Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Konso, southern Ethiopia. Anthropol. Sci. 115, 133-151 (2007).
10. Leakey, R. E. F. Further evidence of Lower Pleistocene hominids from East Rudolf, North Kenya, 1973. Nature 248, 653-656 (1974).
11. Wood, B. A. in Ancestors: The Hard Evidence (ed. Delson, E.) 206-214 (Alan R. Liss, 1985).
12. Stringer, C. B. inMajor Topics in Primate and HumanEvolution (edsWood, B.,Martin, L. & Andrews, P.) 266-294 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986).
13. Lieberman, D. E., Pilbeam, D. R. & Wood, B. A. A probabilistic approach to the problem of sexual dimorphism in Homo habilis: A comparison of KNM-ER 1470 and KNM-ER 1813. J. Hum. Evol. 17, 503-511 (1988).
14. Groves, C. P. A Theory of Human and Primate Evolution (Clarendon, 1989).
15. Wood, B. Origin and evolution of the genus Homo. Nature 355, 783-790 (1992).
16. Rightmire, G. P. Variation among early Homo crania from Olduvai Gorge and the Koobi Fora region. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 90, 1-33 (1993).
17. Kramer, A., Donnelly, S. M., Kidder, J. H., Ousley, S. D. & Olah, S. M. Craniometric variation in large-bodied hominids: testing the single-species hypothesis for Homo habilis. J. Hum. Evol. 29, 443-462 (1995).
18. Kimbel, W. H., Johanson, D. C. & Rak, Y. Systematic assessment of a maxilla of Homo from Hadar, Ethiopia. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 103, 235-262 (1997).
19. Blumenschine, R. J. et al. Late Pliocene Homo and hominid land use from western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Science 299, 1217-1221 (2003).
20. Clarke, R. J. A Homo habilis maxilla and other newly-discovered hominid fossils from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. J. Hum. Evol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. jhevol.2011.11.007 (4 May 2012).
21. Dean, M. C. & Smith, B. H. in The First Humans: Origin of the Genus Homo(eds Grine, F. E., Fleagle, J. G. & Leakey, R. E.) 101-120 (Springer, 2009).
22. Bromage, T. G., Schrenk, F. & Zonneveld, F. W. Paleoanthropology of the Malawi Rift: An early hominid mandible from the Chiwondo Beds, northern Malawi. J. Hum. Evol. 28, 71-108 (1995).
23. Wood, B. 'Homo rudolfensis' Alexeev, 1986-fact or phantom? J. Hum. Evol. 36, 115-118 (1999).
24. Brown, F. H. & Feibel, C. S. Revision of lithostratigraphic nomenclature in the Koobi Fora region, Kenya. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 143, 297-310 (1986).
25. McDougall, I. & Brown, F. H. Precise 40Ar/39Ar geochronology for the upper Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, northern Kenya. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 163, 205-220 (2006).
26. Lourens, L., Hilgen, F., Shackleton, N. J., Laskar, J. & Wilson, D. in A Geologic Time Scale (eds Gradstein, F., Ogg, J. & Smith, A.) 409-440 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004).
27. Braun, D. R. et al. Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 107, 10002-10007 (2010).
28. Joordens, J. C. A. et al. An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 307, 1-8 (2011).
29. Brock, A., Isaac, G. & Ll. Paleomagnetic stratigraphy and chronology of hominidbearing sediments east of Lake Rudolf, Kenya. Nature 247, 344-348 (1974).
30. McDougall, I. et al. New single crystal 40Ar/39Ar ages improve time scale for deposition of the Omo Group, Omo-Turkana Basin, East Africa. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 169, 213-226 (2012).