Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates: A case study examining the <em>Australopithecus anamensis–afarensis</em> lineage

Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 138Author(s): Andrew Du, John Rowan, Steve C. Wang, Bernard A. Wood, Zeresenay AlemsegedAbstractReliable estimates of when hominin taxa originated and went extinct are central to addressing many paleoanthropological questions, including those relating to macroevolutionary patterns. The timing of hominin temporal ranges can be used to test chronological predictions generated from phylogenetic hypotheses. For example, hypotheses...

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Late survival of dryopithecine hominoids in Southern Caucasus

Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 138Author(s): J. Agustí, O. Oms, P. Piñero, G. Chochisvili, M. Bukhsianidze, D. Lordkipanidze

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Skull reconstruction of the late Miocene ape <em>Rudapithecus hungaricus</em> from Rudabánya, Hungary

Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 138Author(s): Philipp Gunz, Stephanie Kozakowski, Simon Neubauer, Adeline Le Cabec, Ottmar Kullmer, Stefano Benazzi, Jean-Jacques Hublin, David R. BegunAbstractWe report on a computer-based reconstruction of a well-preserved ape skull from late Miocene deposits in Rudabánya, Hungary. Based on micro-computed tomographic scans of the original Rudapithecus hungaricus partial cranium RUD 200 and the associated mandible RUD 212 we...

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First record of <em>Theropithecus</em> (Cercopithecidae) from the Republic of Djibouti

Publication date: January 2020Source: Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 138Author(s): Denis Geraads, Louis de BonisAbstractWe describe here several specimens of the genus Theropithecus from the southern shore of Lake Assal in the Republic of Djibouti; they are the first record of the genus from this country. We assign them to a derived stage of T. oswaldi. This identification has implications for the age of the informal ‘Formation 1’ from this area, which should probably be assigned to the Middle...

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Rodents and other terrestrial small mammals from Kanapoi, north-western Kenya

Publication date: Available online 20 November 2019Source: Journal of Human EvolutionAuthor(s): Fredrick K. Manthi, Alisa J. WinklerAbstractExcavations at Kanapoi in north-western Kenya have yielded the most numerically abundant and taxonomically diverse early Pliocene (4.19 Ma) terrestrial small mammal assemblage known from Kenya. A minimum of 15 species are reported, including soricids, sengis, leporids, and rodents: all taxa are referable to extant genera, with the exception of the murine rodent,...

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