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Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and Implications for the Origins of the Genus Homo

Published:2011-09-09 Issue:6048 Volume:333 Page:1421-1423
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Pickering Robyn¹²,Dirks Paul H. G. M.³⁴²,Jinnah Zubair⁴,de Ruiter Darryl J.²⁵,Churchill Steven E.²⁶,Herries Andy I. R.⁷,Woodhead Jon D.¹,Hellstrom John C.¹,Berger Lee R.⁴²

Affiliation:

1. School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.

2. Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Wits 2050, South Africa.

3. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Queensland 4811, Australia.

4. School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Wits 2050, South Africa.

5. Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.

6. Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

7. Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, Archaeology Program, School of Historical and European Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Abstract

Further U-series dating and the magnetic stratigraphy of the hosting cave deposits show that Australopithecus sediba lived just under 2 million years ago, near or just before the emergence of Homo .

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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