Taxonomic status of the hominine cranium KNM-ER 1813 (primates: Homininae) from the Plio/Pleistocene of Koobi Fora |
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Authors: | Walter W Ferguson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69 978, Tel Aviv, Israel |
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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 ofHomo habilis
Leakey, Tobias, andNapier, 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 forH. habilis, and is probably a male. It is sympatric withH. habilis yet shows more primitive features and rather a closer affinity to the smaller, more primitive chronospeciesH. antiquus
Ferguson, 1984, and is thus the first, nearly complete skull of our oldest known human ancestor. |
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Keywords: | Homo habilis Homo antiquus cranium Koobi Fora Plio/Pleistocene |
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