Homo rudolfensis is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2 million years ago (mya). Because H. rudolfensis...
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Human evolution (redirect from Evolution of Homo sapiens)
not yet clear. Homo rudolfensis refers to a single, incomplete skull from Kenya. Scientists have suggested that this was a specimen of Homo habilis, but...
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splitting, namely into "H. rudolfensis" and "H. gautengensis" of which only the former has received wide support. Like contemporary Homo, H. habilis brain size...
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Human taxonomy (redirect from Homo sapiens sapiens)
1972, designated Pithecanthropus rudolfensis by Alekseyev 1978) is now seen as either a third early species of Homo (alongside H. habilis and H. erectus)...
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Human (redirect from HomoSapiens)
LD 350-1 from Ethiopia, and the earliest named species are Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis which evolved by 2.3 million years ago. H. erectus (the African...
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Homo (from Latin homō 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant...
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paniscus Homo habilis Homo rudolfensis Homo ergaster Homo erectus Homo antecessor Homo heidelbergensis Homo naledi Homo neanderthalensis Homo denisova Homo sapiens...
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early from contemporaneous Homo. It is unclear whether they branched off at approximately the time of H. habilis, H. rudolfensis, and A. sediba, are a sister...
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Kenyanthropus (redirect from Homo platyops)
K. platyops, but may also include the 2 million year old Homo rudolfensis, or K. rudolfensis. Before its naming in 2001, Australopithecus afarensis was...
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Neanderthal (redirect from Homo sapiens neanderthalensis)
Neanderthals (/niˈændərˌtɑːl, neɪ-, -ˌθɑːl/ nee-AN-də(r)-TAHL, nay-, -THAHL; Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of...
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Homo floresiensis ( /flɔːrˈɛziːˌɛn.sɪs/), also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit" (after the fictional species), is an extinct species of small archaic...
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Australopithecus africanus (redirect from Homo Transvaalensis)
Humankind Homo ergaster – Extinct species or subspecies of archaic human Homo rudolfensis – Extinct hominin from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa Homo habilis –...
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Homo juluensis is an extinct species of archaic human from the Middle Pleistocene of China which encompasses Xujiayao, Xuchang Man, Penghu 1, and possibly...
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interpreted as either a distinct species, Homo rudolfensis, or alternatively as evidence of sexual dimorphism in Homo habilis. In 1967, Richard Leakey reported...
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Homo luzonensis, also known as Callao Man and locally called "Ubag" after a mythical caveman, is an extinct, possibly pygmy, species of archaic human from...
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Homo heidelbergensis (also H. erectus heidelbergensis, H. sapiens heidelbergensis) is an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human which existed from...
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Dmanisi skull 5 (category Homo erectus fossils)
many hominin fossils thought to be from different species such as Homo rudolfensis or Homo habilis may not have been separate species at all. Rather, they...
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was originally thought to be Homo habilis, but some anthropologists have assigned it to a new species, Homo rudolfensis, named after the lake (previously...
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distinguished from earlier and more basal species of Homo, notably H. habilis and H. rudolfensis, by a number of features that align them, and their inferred...
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Homo erectus (/ˌhoʊmoʊ əˈrɛktəs/ lit. 'upright man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, spanning nearly 2 million years. It is...
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of Paranthropus boisei caused great excitement. A Homo rudolfensis skull (KNM ER 1470) and a Homo erectus skull (KNM ER 3733), discovered in 1972 and...
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OH 24 (category Homo habilis fossils)
the early Homo fossils that have been found into Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis, or lumping them together into one single species, Homo habilis. Some...
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Early modern human (redirect from Anatomically modern Homo sapiens)
anatomically modern human (AMH), are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens (sometimes Homo sapiens sapiens) that are anatomically consistent with the range...
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Homo antecessor (Latin "pioneer man") is an extinct species of archaic human recorded in the Spanish Sierra de Atapuerca, a productive archaeological site...
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List of human evolution fossils (category Homo fossils)
fossils shown are human (genus Homo). After 11,500 years ago (11.5 ka, beginning of the Holocene), all fossils shown are Homo sapiens (anatomically modern...
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Humankind Homo ergaster – Extinct species or subspecies of archaic human Homo habilis – Archaic human species from 2.8 to 1.65 mya Homo rudolfensis – Extinct...
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1470, an incomplete skull of an archaic human of the extinct species Homo rudolfensis that was discovered in 1972 in Kenya. South of Heaven was released...
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Denisovan (redirect from Homo Denisovan)
humans. The third molar is outside the range of any Homo species except H. habilis and H. rudolfensis, and is more like those of australopithecines. The...
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Homo longi is an extinct species of archaic human identified from a nearly complete skull, nicknamed 'Dragon Man', from Harbin on the Northeast China Plain...
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Paranthropus boisei Homo – immediate ancestors of modern humans Homo gautengensis† (probable H. habilis specimens) Homo rudolfensis† Homo habilis† Homo floresiensis†...
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