Unexpectedly many extinct hominins

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2969-2974

  Bokma, Folmer ^a   van den Brink, Valentijn ^b   Stadler, Tanja ^c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Denisova; Extinction; Homo floresiensis; Human evolution; Human chimp split; Molecular phylogeny; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84865789812     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01660.x     Document Type: Article

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