Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo

Nature

Volumn 519, Issue 7541, 2015, Pages 83-86

  Spoor, Fred ^a,b   Gunz, Philipp ^a   Neubauer, Simon ^a   Stelzer, Stefanie ^a   Scott, Nadia ^a   Kwekason, Amandus ^c   Dean, M Christopher ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c National Museum of Tanzania   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC VARIATION; GORGE; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; OLDUVAI EVENT; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SKULL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOOTH;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; FOSSIL; FOSSIL HOMINID; HOMINID; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO HABILIS; HUMAN; JAW; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO HABILIS; HOMO RUDOLFENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MANDIBLE; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

EID: 84924299970     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14224     Document Type: Article

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