Reconstructing human evolution: Achievements, challenges, and opportunities

Reconstructing human evolution: Achievements, challenges, and opportunities

This contribution reviews the evidence that has resolved the branching structure of the higher primate part of the tree of life and the substantial body of fossil evidence for human evolution. It considers some of the problems faced by those who try to interpret the taxonomy and systematics of the h...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2010-05, Vol.107 (Supplement 2), p.8902-8909
1. Verfasser: Wood, Bernard
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Australopithecus
COLLOQUIUM PAPERS
Cranium
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Fossils
Humans
Phylogenetics
Skeleton
Taxa
Taxonomy
Teeth
Tooth enamel
Type specimens
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Zusammenfassung:This contribution reviews the evidence that has resolved the branching structure of the higher primate part of the tree of life and the substantial body of fossil evidence for human evolution. It considers some of the problems faced by those who try to interpret the taxonomy and systematics of the human fossil record. How do you to tell an early human taxon from one in a closely related clade? How do you determine the number of taxa represented in the human clade? How can homoplasy be recognized and factored into attempts to recover phylogeny?
ISSN:0027-8424
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1001649107