Geological Setting and Age of Australopithecus sediba from Southern Africa

Author:

Dirks Paul H. G. M.12,Kibii Job M.3,Kuhn Brian F.3,Steininger Christine23,Churchill Steven E.34,Kramers Jan D.256,Pickering Robyn7,Farber Daniel L.89,Mériaux Anne-Sophie10,Herries Andy I. R.1112,King Geoffrey C. P.13,Berger Lee R.23

Affiliation:

1. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.

2. School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa.

3. Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa.

4. Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Box 90383, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

5. Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.

6. Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa.

7. School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.

8. Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA.

9. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

10. School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK.

11. UNSW Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

12. Geomagnetism Laboratory, Oliver Lodge, Department of Earth and Ocean Science, University of Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK.

13. Laboratoire Tectonique, Institut de Physique du Globe Paris, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France.

Abstract

From Australopithecus to Homo Our genus Homo is thought to have evolved a little more than 2 million years ago from the earlier hominid Australopithecus . But there are few fossils that provide detailed information on this transition. Berger et al. (p. 195 ; see the cover) now describe two partial skeletons, including most of the skull, pelvis, and ankle, of a new species of Australopithecus that are informative. The skeletons were found in a cave in South Africa encased in sediments dated by Dirks et al. (p. 205 ) to about 1.8 to 1.9 million years ago. The fossils share many derived features with the earliest Homo species, including in its pelvis and smaller teeth, and imply that the transition to Homo was in stages.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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