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Andy I R Herries1,2, Jesse M Martin3, A B Leece3, Justin W Adams4,2, Giovanni Boschian5,2, Renaud Joannes-Boyau6,2, Tara R Edwards3, Tom Mallett3, Jason Massey4,7, Ashleigh Murszewski3, Simon Neubauer8, Robyn Pickering9,10, David S Strait11,2, Brian J Armstrong2, Stephanie Baker2, Matthew V Caruana2, Tim Denham12, John Hellstrom13, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi14, Simon Mokobane2, Paul Penzo-Kajewski3, Douglass S Rovinsky4, Gary T Schwartz15, Rhiannon C Stammers3, Coen Wilson3, Jon Woodhead13, Colin Menter14.
Abstract
Understanding the extinction of Australopithecus and origins of Paranthropus and Homo in South Africa has been hampered by the perceived complex geological context of hominin fossils, poor chronological resolution, and a lack of well-preserved early Homo specimens. We describe, date, and contextualize the discovery of two hominin crania from Drimolen Main Quarry in South Africa. At ~2.04 million to 1.95 million years old, DNH 152 represents the earliest definitive occurrence of Paranthropus robustus, and DNH 134 represents the earliest occurrence of a cranium with clear affinities to Homo erectus These crania also show that Homo, Paranthropus, and Australopithecus were contemporaneous at ~2 million years ago. This high taxonomic diversity is also reflected in non-hominin species and provides evidence of endemic evolution and dispersal during a period of climatic variability.Entities:
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Year: 2020 PMID： 32241925 DOI： 10.1126/science.aaw7293
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728