Fifty years after Homo habilis: Bernard Wood explains why the announcement of 'handy man' in April 1964 threw the field of hominin evolution into a turmoil that continues to this day

Nature

Volumn 508, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-33

  Wood, Bernard ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; EVOLUTION; FOOT; FOSSIL HOMINID; HOMINID; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO HABILIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE OF LIFE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; KENYA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMINIDAE; KENYA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TANZANIA;

EID: 84899142176     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/508031a     Document Type: Note

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