A new species of the genusHomo (primates: Hominidae) from the Plio/Pleistocene of Koobi Fora, in Kenya

Ferguson, Walter W.

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“…31 The taxonomy of these earlier specimens is still in dispute, with some authors seeing one variable species (H. habilis), 28 others seeing two (H. habilis and H. rudolfensis), 32 and yet others more than two. 33 The early Homo situation is also confused because of statements about the limb proportions of one partial skeleton, OH 62. 34 The original describers guessed the length of the very fragmentary femur.…”

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New perspectives on the hominids of the Turkana Basin, Kenya

Walker¹

2003

Evol. Anthropol.

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New perspectives on the hominids of the Turkana Basin, Kenya

Walker¹

2003

Evol. Anthropol.

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“…Fora, but which may belong to different species (e.g., Alexeev, 1978;Walker and Leakey, 1978;Stringer, 1986;Chamberlain and Wood, 1987;Lieberman et al, 1988;1996;Wood, 1991;Rightmire, 1993;Ferguson, 1995;Donnelly, 1996;Prat, 1997;Zeitoun, 2000).…”

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Cladistics with geometric morphometric data: The variability of the calvarium in the genus Homo

Simon-Maciejewski,

Manzi,

Zeitoun

et al. 2024

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Over the last 30 years, several protocols to adapt 3D geometric morphometric data to cladistics have been developed. Strongly criticised, these protocols are only occasionally used in palaeoanthropology, despite the obvious heuristic potential of such an approach. This study tests two different protocols to analyse 23 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) representing the genera Pongo, Gorilla, Pan, Australopithecus and Homo, in order to evaluate the phylogenetic information derived from geometric morphometric data. The 23 OTUs were based on averaged Procrustesaligned coordinates (generalised Procrustes analysis) of three landmark confi gurations (148, 347 and 636 landmarks) describing the calvarium morphology of 78 specimens. The fi rst protocol used the coordinates of the principal components, obtained after a principal component analysis, as variables describing the OTUs. The second approach directly used the aligned 3D coordinates of the landmarks. These two datasets were then analysed with both the heuristic and branch-and-bound algorithms implemented in the TNT software. These analyses produced a unique cladistic tree for each dataset. Independent of the matrix used to obtain the trees, these preliminary results were phylogenetically consistent and support debated paleoanthropological hypotheses.

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“…In sum, the evidence seems to be quite compelling for the existence of an upper dental morph, most spectacularly represented by the fairly complete individual WT 15000, that is found almost a thousand kilometers away at Olduvai as well as around Lake Turkana at Koobi Fora and Nariokotome. The available name for this morph, should anyone wish to designate it a species, is H. microcranous (Ferguson 1995).…”

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Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries

Tattersall¹

2013

Handbook of Paleoanthropology

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On the basis of their strong morphological differences from the Javan type materials, many authorities now consider the diverse East African fossils initially classified as "African Homo erectus" to be more properly allocable to the species H. ergaster. However, while this separation at the species level of the African and Indonesian hominids is certainly justified, the species H. ergaster as thus constituted still embraces a significant morphological variety. Indeed, although this grouping of African fossils seems to form a fairly coherent clade, it also appears quite diverse. The East Turkana type mandible of H. ergaster is matched by other specimens from Kenya and Tanzania, but not by the mandible of the iconic WT 15000 skeleton, and in its turn this specimen fails to match either in its cranial construction or its upper dentition most of the other comparable specimens usually referred to H. ergaster. Clearly there is a need for a systematic reappraisal of the entire "African Homo erectus" ¼ Homo ergaster group, and equally clearly the hominid evolutionary story throughout the Old World in the Early-Middle Pleistocene was more complex than is implied by the extension of the species H. erectus to cover the entire miscellaneous assemblage of hominid fossils from this time period.

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A new species of the genusHomo (primates: Hominidae) from the Plio/Pleistocene of Koobi Fora, in Kenya

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

New perspectives on the hominids of the Turkana Basin, Kenya

New perspectives on the hominids of the Turkana Basin, Kenya

Cladistics with geometric morphometric data: The variability of the calvarium in the genus Homo

Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries

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