Dental data challenge the ubiquitous presence of Homo in the Cradle of Humankind.

ABSTRACT: The origins of Homo, as well as the diversity and biogeographic distribution of early Homo species, remain critical outstanding issues in paleoanthropology. Debates about the recognition of early Homo, first appearance dates, and taxonomic diversity within Homo are particularly important for determining the role that southern African taxa may have played in the origins of the genus. The correct identification of Homo remains also has implications for reconstructing phylogenetic relationships between species of Australopithecus and Paranthropus, and the links between early Homo species and Homo erectus. We use microcomputed tomography and landmark-free deformation-based three-dimensional geometric morphometrics to extract taxono

SUBMITTER: Zanolli C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9282359 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature