Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa
| Autor: | Coen Wilson, Justin W. Adams, Ashleigh Murszewski, Brian J. Armstrong, Robyn Pickering, Stephanie Baker, Giovanni Boschian, Douglass S. Rovinsky, John Hellstrom, Tara R. Edwards, David S. Strait, Simon Mokobane, Colin G. Menter, Paul Penzo-Kajewski, A. B. Leece, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Gary T. Schwartz, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Tom Mallett, Tim Denham, Andy I.R. Herries, Jon Woodhead, Rhiannon C. Stammers, Simon Neubauer, Matthew V. Caruana, Jesse M. Martin, Jason S Massey |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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010506 paleontology
060101 anthropology Multidisciplinary Crania geography.geographical_feature_category biology Hominidae Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Paranthropus robustus Geography Cave Australopithecus Evolutionary biology Paranthropus 0601 history and archaeology Homo erectus 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Popis: | Dating the Drimolen hominins Fossil hominins from South Africa are enriching the story of early human evolution and dispersal. Herries et al. describe the geological context and dating of the hominin-bearing infilled cave, or palaeocave, at a site called Drimolen in South Africa (see the Perspective by Antón). They focus on the age and context of a recently discovered Homo erectus sensu lato fossil and a Paranthropus robustus fossil, which they dated to ∼2.04 million to 1.95 million years ago. This makes Drimolen one of the best-dated sites in South Africa and establishes these fossils as the oldest definitive specimens of their respective species ever discovered. The age confirms that species of Australopithecus, Paranthropus , and early Homo overlapped in the karst of South Africa ∼2 million years ago. Science , this issue p. eaaw7293 ; see also p. 34 |
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