Author:
White Tim D.,Lovejoy C. Owen,Asfaw Berhane,Carlson Joshua P.,Suwa Gen
Abstract
Australopithecus fossils were regularly interpreted during the late 20th century in a framework that used living African apes, especially chimpanzees, as proxies for the immediate ancestors of the human clade. Such projection is now largely nullified by the discovery of Ardipithecus. In the context of accumulating evidence from genetics, developmental biology, anatomy, ecology, biogeography, and geology, Ardipithecus alters perspectives on how our earliest hominid ancestors—and our closest living relatives—evolved.
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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