New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages.
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Leakey, Meave; Spoor, Fed; Brown, F H; Gathogo, P; Kiarie, Christopher; Leakey, Louise; McDougall, Ian
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Most interpretations of early hominin phylogeny recognize a single early to middle Pliocene ancestral lineage, best represented by Australopithecus afarensis, which gave rise to a radiation of taxa in the late Pliocene. Here we report on new fossils discovered west of Lake Turkana, Kenya, which differ markedly from those of contemporary A. afarensis, indicating that hominin taxonomic diversity extended back, well into the middle Pliocene. A 3.5 Myr-old cranium, showing a unique combination of...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2001 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/66656 |
Source: | Nature |
DOI: | 10.1038/35068500 |
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