Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia

Published:2015-03-20 Issue:6228 Volume:347 Page:1355-1359
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

DiMaggio Erin N.¹,Campisano Christopher J.²,Rowan John²,Dupont-Nivet Guillaume³,Deino Alan L.⁴,Bibi Faysal⁵,Lewis Margaret E.⁶,Souron Antoine⁷,Garello Dominique⁸,Werdelin Lars⁹,Reed Kaye E.²,Arrowsmith J Ramón⁸

Affiliation:

1. Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

2. Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

3. CNRS Géosciences Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, France.

4. Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA.

5. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.

6. Biology Program, Stockton University, 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205, USA.

7. Human Evolution Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3160, USA.

8. School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

9. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Palaeobiology, Box 50007, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract

Finding Homo nearly 3 million years ago The fossil record of humans is notoriously patchy and incomplete. Even so, skeletal remains and artifacts unearthed in Africa in recent decades have done much to illuminate human evolution. But what is the origin of the genus Homo ? Villmoare et al. found a fossil mandible and teeth from the Afar region in Ethiopia. The find extends the record of recognizable Homo by at least half a million years, to almost 2.8 million years ago. The morphological traits of the fossil align more closely with Homo than with any other hominid genus. DiMaggio et al. confirm the ancient date of the site and suggest that these early humans lived in a setting that was more open and arid than previously thought. Science , this issue p. 1352 , p. 1355

Funder

NSF

Alexander von Humbolt Foundation

Geological Society of America

American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Society for Sedimentary Geology

Fyssen Foundation

Institute of Human Origins

School of Human Evolution and Social Change at ASU

Philanthropic Education Organization

Marie Curie Actions

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