Reconstruction and re-evaluation of the skull ofHomo antiquus (hominoidea: Homininae) from Hadar

Ferguson, Walter W.

doi:10.1007/bf02381020

Primates

1987

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Reconstruction and re-evaluation of the skull ofHomo antiquus (hominoidea: Homininae) from Hadar

Walter W. Ferguson

Abstract: ABSTRACT. The skull of Homo antiquus FERGUSON, 1984, represented by cranial remains of a fossilized skeleton, A.L. 288-1, from the Plio/Pleistocene of Hadar in Ethiopia, is reconstructed and the procedure described. Re-evaluation of the skull shows that it is apparemly the smallest, normal, unequivocal hominid skull known; and that its cranial morphology is not Australopithecine, but Hominine.

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Taxonomic status of the hominine cranium KNM-ER 1813 (primates: Homininae) from the Plio/Pleistocene of Koobi Fora

Ferguson

1987

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ABSTRACT. The hominine cranium KNM-ER 1813, from the late Plio/Pleistocene of Koobi Fora, has been regarded recently by some authors as a female of Homo habilis LEAKEY, ToaIAS, and NAPIER, 1964 and by others as an enigma. Reassessment of its cranial morphology, dental metrics, proportions, and a new detailed determination of its sex indicates that it does not conform with the diagnosis for H. habilis, and is probably a male. It is sympatric with H. habilis yet shows more primitive features and rather a closer affinity to the smaller, more primitive chronospecies H. antiquus FERGU-SON, 1984, and is thus the first, nearly complete skull of our oldest known human ancestor.

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Taxonomic status of the hominine cranium KNM-ER 1813 (primates: Homininae) from the Plio/Pleistocene of Koobi Fora

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1987

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Model of a hypothetical protohominid dentition and its implications for hominid phylogeny

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1988

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ABSTRACT. The complete dentition of the common ancestor of Australopithecus and Homo, intermediate between that of a pongid and a hominid, is virtually unknown. The maxillary dentition (P3-M2) of Ramapithecus brevirostris L~wIs, 1934, a pongid from the Early Pliocene, and that of hominids from the Late Pliocene and Plio/Pleistocene is known. Since R. brevirostris is probably ancestral to the hominids, a model of intermediate maxillary dentition (P3-M2) is extrapolated and described. The model represents a hypothetical protohominid dentition. It does not conform with the teeth of Australopithecus, but shows greater morphological affinity to hominine dentition and to 5 myo hominids. The Homo lineage, therefore, may go back to the Middle Pliocene. According to the normal sequence of evolution, it is most unlikely that Australopithecus gave rise to Homo, but much more probable that a very early, generalized Homo evolved into an advanced, specialized Australopithecus.

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Australopithecines: Ancestors of the African Apes?

Verhaegen¹

1994

Hum. Evol.

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Reconstruction and re-evaluation of the skull ofHomo antiquus (hominoidea: Homininae) from Hadar

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Taxonomic status of the hominine cranium KNM-ER 1813 (primates: Homininae) from the Plio/Pleistocene of Koobi Fora

Taxonomic status of the hominine cranium KNM-ER 1813 (primates: Homininae) from the Plio/Pleistocene of Koobi Fora

Model of a hypothetical protohominid dentition and its implications for hominid phylogeny

Australopithecines: Ancestors of the African Apes?

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