Reconciling Species Concepts: An Ecological Perspective. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Species concepts remain contentious, both in paleoanthropology and in modern taxonomy. The lineage‐based concept emphasizing evolutionary independence is most fundamental, but in practice is generally represented by proxy evidence of morphological or genetic divergence.
Owen-Smith N.
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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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Quaternary International, 2023 Carbon isotopic analysis has been challenging our ideas about hominin diet for nearly 30 years. The first study in 1994 revealed that Paranthropus robustus from South Africa consumed principally C3 foods (e.g., tree fruits and leaves) but also about 25% C4/CAM resources (e.g., tropical grasses and sedges).
Matt Sponheimer +4 more
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Comparative Context of Hard-Tissue Sexual Dimorphism in Early Hominins: Implications for Alpha Taxonomy. [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT Sexual dimorphism is one of the main factors confounding attempts to generate sound alpha taxonomic hypotheses in the early hominin fossil record. To better understand how between‐sex variation may confound alpha taxonomic assessments, we consider some of the factors that drive hard‐tissue sexual dimorphism in extant primates.
Balolia KL, Wood B.
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New hominin dental remains from the ∼2.04–1.95 Ma Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa
Annals of Human Biology, 2023 Background The Drimolen Palaeocave site is situated within the UNESCO Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa World Heritage Area and has yielded numerous hominin fossils since its discovery in 1992.
A. B. Leece +6 more
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Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human‐induced alterations to the terrestrial biosphere have been evident for over 10,000 years, the pace and scale of change has accelerated dramatically since the onset
Longman DP, Shaw CN.
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Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis
eLife, 2021 The evolution of bipedalism and reduced reliance on arboreality in hominins resulted in larger lower limb joints relative to the joints of the upper limb. The pattern and timing of this transition, however, remains unresolved.
Anjali M Prabhat +5 more
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The first hominin from the early Pleistocene paleocave of Haasgat, South Africa [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Haasgat is a primate-rich fossil locality in the northeastern part of the Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here we report the first hominin identified from Haasgat, a partial maxillary molar (HGT 500), that was recovered ...
AB Leece +7 more
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Hominin palaeoecology in Late Pliocene Malawi : first insights from isotopes (13C, 18O) in mammal teeth [PDF]
, 2011 Carbon-13 and oxygen-18 abundances were measured in large mammal skeletal remains (tooth enamel, dentine and bone) from the Chiwondo Beds in Malawi, which were dated by biostratigraphic correlation to ca. 2.5 million years ago.
Bocherens, Herv +3 more
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Taxonomic identification of Lower Pleistocene fossil hominins based on distal humeral diaphyseal cross-sectional shape [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 The coexistence of multiple hominin species during the Lower Pleistocene has long presented a challenge for taxonomic attribution of isolated postcrania.
Michael R. Lague
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