New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei [PDF]
NatureWhen Mary Leakey discovered the OH 5 cranium of Paranthropus boisei alongside Oldowan stone artefacts, it was declared "the oldest yet discovered maker of stone tools"1. Whether Paranthropus made and used tools has been debated ever since2-4, largely because there are no known hand bones that can be definitively attributed to this genus. Here we report
Carrie S Mongle +2 more
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Mechanisms of tooth damage and Paranthropus dietary reconstruction
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2018 According to the current fossil record, the extinct hominin genus Paranthropus and the genus Homo both first appeared ∼2.7 million years ago. Despite this similarity in geological age, Paranthropus evolved enormous postcanine teeth with very thick enamel
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On the relationship between maxillary molar root shape and jaw kinematics in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Plio-Pleistocene hominins from South Africa remain poorly understood. Here, we focus on how Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus exploited and—in part—partitioned their environment.
Kornelius Kupczik +2 more
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What the eastern African stone tool evidence tells us about Plio-Pleistocene hominin extinctions [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: ExtinctionThis paper examines the stone tool evidence associated with extinctions among Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo in Eastern Africa between 0.8 and 3.5 Ma.
John J. Shea
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Australopithecus oder Plesianthropus oder Paranthropus? [PDF]
Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 1951 Kein Abstract verfügbar.
H. Weinert
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Complex and diverse patterns of neurocranial development in Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEven though poorly understood, early ontogeny may have influenced the distinct morphologies and behaviors of Homo sapiens, fossil hominins and extant African apes.
José Braga, Z. Alemseged, E. Gilissen
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Paranthropus through the looking glass. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Most research and public interest in human origins focuses on taxa that are likely to be our ancestors. There must have been genetic continuity between modern humans and the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees and bonobos, and we want to know what each link in this chain looked like and how it behaved.
Wood BA, Patterson DB.
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Paranthropus boisei: Fifty years of evidence and analysis [PDF]
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2007 Paranthropus boisei is a hominin taxon with a distinctive cranial and dental morphology. Its hypodigm has been recovered from sites with good stratigraphic and chronological control, and for some morphological regions, such as the mandible and the mandibular dentition, the samples are not only relatively well dated, but they are, by paleontological ...
Bernard Wood, Paul J Constantino
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New fossils from Kromdraai and Drimolen, South Africa, and their distinctiveness among Paranthropus robustus [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Most fossil hominin species are sampled with spatial, temporal or anatomical biases that can hinder assessments of their paleodiversity, and may not yield genuine evolutionary signals.
José Braga +3 more
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Accessory cusp expression at the enamel-dentine junction of hominin mandibular molars [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Studies of hominin dental morphology frequently consider accessory cusps on the lower molars, in particular those on the distal margin of the tooth (C6 or distal accessory cusp) and the lingual margin of the tooth (C7 or lingual accessory cusp). They are
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