Paleoanthropology: Homo erectus and the limits of a paleontological species.
The bushy nature of the human evolutionary tree in the past 3 million years is widely accepted. Yet, a spectacular new fossil of early Homo has prompted some paleoanthropologists to prune our family tree.
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: hublin@eva.mpg.de.
Jean-Jacques
JJ
Hublin
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005580:Fossils; D015186:Hominidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology*