Schuster, Angela M. H. (). „Earliest Remains of Genus Homo”. Archaeology. 50 (1). Accesat în .
The line to the earliest members of Homo were derived from Australopithecus, a genus which had separated from the Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor by late Miocene or early Pliocene times.
Schuster, Angela M.H. (). „Earliest Remains of Genus Homo”. Archaeology. 50 (1). Accesat în . The line to the earliest members of Homo were derived from Australopithecus, a genus which had separated from the Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor by late Miocene or early Pliocene times.
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The word "human" itself is from Latin humanus, an adjective formed on the root of homo, thought to derive from a Proto-Indo-European word for "earth" reconstructed as *dhǵhem-. dhghem The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
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Linné, Carl von (). Systema naturæ. Regnum animale (ed. 10). Sumptibus Guilielmi Engelmann. pp. 18, 20. Accesat în ..
Note: In 1959, Linnaeus was designated as the lectotype for Homo sapiens (Stearn, W. T. 1959. "The background of Linnaeus's contributions to the nomenclature and methods of systematic biology", Systematic Zoology 8 (1): 4-22, p. 4) which means that following the nomenclatural rules, Homo sapiens was validly defined as the animal species to which Linnaeus belonged.
"African man", used by T.F. Dreyer (1935) for the Florisbad Skull he found in 1932 (also Homo florisbadensis or Homo helmei). Also the genus suggested for a number of archaic human skulls found at Lake Eyasi by Weinert (1938). Leaky, Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society' (1942), p. 43.
"remote man"; from Telanthropus capensis (Broom and Robinson 1949), see (1961), p. 487.
Haviland, William A.; Walrath, Dana; Prins, Harald E.L.; McBride, Bunny (). Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge (ed. 8th). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth. p. 162. ISBN978-0-495-38190-7.H. erectus may have appeared some 2 million years ago. Fossils dated to as much as 1.8 million years ago have been found both in Africa and in Southeast Asia, and the oldest fossils by a narrow margin (1.85 to 1.77 million years ago) were found in the Caucasus, so that it is unclear whether H. erectus emerged in Africa and migrated to Eurasia, or if, conversely, it evolved in Eurasia and migrated back to Africa.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones, Robert Martin & David Pilbeam (eds.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242.Mentenanță CS1: Utilizează parametrul editori (link)
Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52.
Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of LD 350-1:
Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
Lowery, R.K.; Uribe, G.; Jimenez, E.B.; Weiss, M.A.; Herrera, K.J.; Regueiro, M.; Herrera, R.J. (). „Neanderthal and Denisova genetic affinities with contemporary humans: Introgression versus common ancestral polymorphisms”. Gene. 530 (1): 83–94. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2013.06.005. PMID23872234.
This study raises the possibility of observed genetic affinities between archaic and modern human populations being mostly due to common ancestral polymorphisms.
from Atlanthropus mauritanicus,
name given to the species of fossils (three lower jaw bones and a parietal bone of a skull) discovered in 1954 to 1955 by Camille Arambourg in Tighennif, Algeria. Arambourg, C. (). „A recent discovery in human paleontology: Atlanthropus of ternifine (Algeria)”. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 13 (2): 191–201. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330130203.
Pickering, R.; Dirks, P.H.; Jinnah, Z.; De Ruiter, D.J.; Churchill, S.E.; Herries, A.I.; Berger, L.R. (). „Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and implications for the origins of the genus Homo”. Science. 333 (6048): 1421–1423. Bibcode:2011Sci...333.1421P. doi:10.1126/science.1203697. PMID21903808.
McPherron, S.P.; Alemseged, Z.; Marean, C.W.; Wynn, J.G.; Reed, D.; Geraads, D.; Bobe, R.; Bearat, H.A. (). „Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia”. Nature. 466 (7308): 857–860. Bibcode:2010Natur.466..857M. doi:10.1038/nature09248. PMID20703305.
"The oldest direct evidence of stone tool manufacture comes from Gona (Ethiopia) and dates to between 2.6 and 2.5 million years (Myr) ago. [...] Here we report stone-tool-inflicted marks on bones found during recent survey work in Dikika, Ethiopia [... showing] unambiguous stone-tool cut marks for flesh removal [..., dated] to between 3.42 and 3.24 Myr ago [...] Our discovery extends by approximately 800,000 years the antiquity of stone tools and of stone-tool-assisted consumption of ungulates by hominins; furthermore, this behaviour can now be attributed to Australopithecus afarensis."
Villmoare, Brian; Kimbel, William H.; Seyoum, Chalachew; Campisano, Christopher J.; DiMaggio, Erin N.; Rowan, John; Braun, David R.; Arrowsmith, J. Ramón; Reed, Kaye E. (). „Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1352–1355. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1352V. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1343. ISSN0036-8075. PMID25739410..
See also: Erin N. DiMaggio; Campisano C.J.; Rowan J.; Dupont-Nivet G.; Deino A.L. (). „Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1355–1359. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1355D. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1415. PMID25739409.
Cela-Conde and Ayala (2003) recognize five genera within Hominina: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus (including Paranthropus), Homo (including Kenyanthropus), Praeanthropus (including Orrorin), and Sahelanthropus. Cela-Conde, C.J.; Ayala, F.J. (). „Genera of the human lineage”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100 (13): 7684–7689. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.7684C. doi:10.1073/pnas.0832372100. PMC164648. PMID12794185.
Wood and Richmond; Richmond, BG (). „Human evolution: taxonomy and paleobiology”. Journal of Anatomy. 197 (Pt 1): 19–60. doi:10.1046/j.1469-7580.2000.19710019.x. PMC1468107. PMID10999270. p. 41: "A recent reassessment of cladistic and functional evidence concluded that there are few, if any, grounds for retaining H. habilis in Homo, and recommended that the material be transferred (or, for some, returned) to Australopithecus (Wood & Collard, 1999)."
F. Spoor; M.G. Leakey; P.N. Gathogo; F.H. Brown; S.C. Antón; I. McDougall; C. Kiarie; F.K. Manthi; L.N. Leakey (). „Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Nature. 448 (7154): 688–691. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..688S. doi:10.1038/nature05986. PMID17687323.
F. Spoor; M.G. Leakey; P.N. Gathogo; F.H. Brown; S.C. Antón; I. McDougall; C. Kiarie; F.K. Manthi; L.N. Leakey (). „Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Nature. 448 (7154): 688–691. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..688S. doi:10.1038/nature05986. PMID17687323. "A partial maxilla assigned to H. habilis reliably demonstrates that this species survived until later than previously recognized, making an anagenetic relationship with H. erectus unlikely"
"A partial maxilla assigned to H. habilis reliably demonstrates that this species survived until later than previously recognized, making an anagenetic relationship with H. erectus unlikely. The discovery of a particularly small calvaria of H. erectus indicates that this taxon overlapped in size with H. habilis, and may have shown marked sexual dimorphism. The new fossils confirm the distinctiveness of H. habilis and H. erectus, independently of overall cranial size, and suggest that these two early taxa were living broadly sympatrically in the same lake basin for almost half a million years."
Spoor, F; Leakey, M.G; Gathogo, P.N; Brown, F.H; Antón, S.C; McDougall, I; Kiarie, C; Manthi, F.K.; Leakey, L.N. (). „Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Nature. 448 (7154): 688–691. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..688S. doi:10.1038/nature05986. PMID17687323.
Curnoe, D (). „A review of early Homo in southern Africa focusing on cranial, mandibular and dental remains, with the description of a new species (Homo gautengensis sp. nov.)”. HOMO – Journal of Comparative Human Biology. 61 (3): 151–177. doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2010.04.002. PMID20466364.
Berger, Lee R.; Hawks, John; Dirks, Paul HGM; Elliott, Marina; Roberts, Eric M. (). „Homo naledi and Pleistocene hominin evolution in subequatorial Africa”. eLife (în engleză). 6. doi:10.7554/elife.24234. PMID28483041.
Saylor, Beverly Z.; Scott, Gary; Levin, Naomi E.; Deino, Alan; Alene, Mulugeta; Ryan, Timothy M.; Melillo, Stephanie M.; Gibert, Luis; Haile-Selassie, Yohannes (). „New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity”. Nature (în engleză). 521 (7553): 483–488. Bibcode:2015Natur.521..483H. doi:10.1038/nature14448. ISSN1476-4687. PMID26017448.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones; Robert Martin; David Pilbeam. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242. Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp. 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of a jawbone: Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
Zeitoun, Valery (). „High occurrence of a basicranial feature in Homo erectus: Anatomical description of the preglenoid tubercle”. The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist (în engleză). 274B (1): 148–156. doi:10.1002/ar.b.10028. ISSN1552-4914. PMID12964205.
Dembo (). „The evolutionary relationships and age of Homo naledi: An assessment using dated Bayesian phylogenetic methods”. Journal of Human Evolution. 97: 17–26. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.04.008. PMID27457542.
Mounier, A.; Caparros, M. (). „The phylogenetic status of Homo heidelbergensis – a cladistic study of Middle Pleistocene hominins”. BMSAP (în franceză). 27 (3–4): 110–134. doi:10.1007/s13219-015-0127-4. ISSN0037-8984.
Dediu, Dan; Levinson, Stephen C. (). „Neanderthal language revisited: not only us”. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. The Evolution of Language. 21: 49–55. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.01.001. ISSN2352-1546.
Confirmed H. habilis fossils are dated to between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago. This date range overlaps with the emergence of Homo erectus. Schrenk, Friedemann; Kullmer, Ottmar; Bromage, Timothy (). „The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils”. În Henke, Winfried; Tattersall, Ian. Handbook of Paleoanthropology. 1. In collaboration with Thorolf Hardt. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 1611–1631. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. ISBN978-3-540-32474-4.
DiMaggio, Erin N.; Campisano, Christopher J.; Rowan, John; et al. (). „Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1355–1359. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1355D. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1415. ISSN0036-8075. PMID25739409. Hominins with "proto-Homo" traits may have lived as early as 2.8 million years ago, as suggested by a fossil jawbone classified as transitional between Australopithecus and Homo discovered in 2015.
Curnoe, Darren (iunie 2010). „A review of early Homo in southern Africa focusing on cranial, mandibular and dental remains, with the description of a new species (Homo gautengensis sp. nov.)”. HOMO – Journal of Comparative Human Biology. 61 (3): 151–177. doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2010.04.002. ISSN0018-442X. PMID20466364. A species proposed in 2010 based on the fossil remains of three individuals dated between 1.9 and 0.6 million years ago. The same fossils were also classified as H. habilis, H. ergaster or Australopithecus by other anthropologists.
Muttoni, Giovanni; Scardia, Giancarlo; Kent, Dennis V.; Swisher, Carl C.; Manzi, Giorgio (). „Pleistocene magnetochronology of early hominin sites at Ceprano and Fontana Ranuccio, Italy”. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 286 (1–2): 255–268. Bibcode:2009E&PSL.286..255M. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.032.
Dirks, P.; et al. (). „The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa”. eLife. 6: e24231. doi:10.7554/eLife.24231. PMID28483040.
Bischoff, James L.; Shamp, Donald D.; Aramburu, Arantza; et al. (martie 2003). „The Sima de los Huesos Hominids Date to Beyond U/Th Equilibrium (>350 kyr) and Perhaps to 400–500 kyr: New Radiometric Dates”. Journal of Archaeological Science. 30 (3): 275–280. doi:10.1006/jasc.2002.0834. ISSN0305-4403.
The first humans with "proto-Neanderthal traits" lived in Eurasia as early as 0.6 to 0.35 million years ago (classified as H. heidelbergensis, also called a chronospecies because it represents a chronological grouping rather than being based on clear morphological distinctions from either H. erectus or H. neanderthalensis). There is a fossil gap in Europe between
300 and 243 kya, and by convention, fossils younger than 243 kya are called "Neanderthal".
D. Dean; J.-J. Hublin; R. Holloway; R. Ziegler (). „On the phylogenetic position of the pre-Neandertal specimen from Reilingen, Germany”. Journal of Human Evolution. 34 (5). pp. 485–508. doi:10.1006/jhev.1998.0214.
Détroit, F.; Mijares, A. S.; Corny, J.; Daver, G.; Zanolli, C.; Dizon, E.; Robles, E.; Grün, R.; Piper, P. J. (). „A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines”. Nature. 568 (7751): 181–186. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1067-9.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones, Robert Martin & David Pilbeam (eds.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242.Mentenanță CS1: Utilizează parametrul editori (link)
Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52.
Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of LD 350-1:
Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
H. erectus in the narrow sense (the Asian species) was extinct by 140,000 years ago, Homo erectus soloensis, found in Java, is considered the latest known survival of H. erectus. Formerly dated to as late as 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, a 2011 study pushed back the date of its extinction of H. e. soloensis to 143,000 years ago at the latest, more likely before 550,000 years ago. Indriati E, Swisher CC III, Lepre C, Quinn RL, Suriyanto RA, et al. 2011 The Age of the 20 Meter Solo River Terrace, Java, Indonesia and the Survival of Homo erectus in Asia.PLoS ONE 6(6): e21562. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021562.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones; Robert Martin; David Pilbeam. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242. Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp. 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of a jawbone: Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
H. erectus in the narrow sense (the Asian species) was extinct by 140,000 years ago, Homo erectus soloensis, found in Java, is considered the latest known survival of H. erectus. Formerly dated to as late as 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, a 2011 study pushed back the date of its extinction of H. e. soloensis to 143,000 years ago at the latest, more likely before 550,000 years ago. Indriati E, Swisher CC III, Lepre C, Quinn RL, Suriyanto RA, et al. 2011 The Age of the 20 Meter Solo River Terrace, Java, Indonesia and the Survival of Homo erectus in Asia.PLoS ONE 6(6): e21562.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021562.
Formerly dated to as late as 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, a 2011 study pushed back the date of its extinction of H. e. soloensis to 143,000 years ago at the latest, more likely before 550,000 years ago.
Indriati E, Swisher CC III, Lepre C, Quinn RL, Suriyanto RA, et al. 2011 The Age of the 20 Meter Solo River Terrace, Java, Indonesia and the Survival of Homo erectus in Asia.PLoS ONE 6(6): e21562. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021562.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones, Robert Martin & David Pilbeam (eds.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242.Mentenanță CS1: Utilizează parametrul editori (link)
Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52.
Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of LD 350-1:
Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
Pickering, R.; Dirks, P.H.; Jinnah, Z.; De Ruiter, D.J.; Churchill, S.E.; Herries, A.I.; Berger, L.R. (). „Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and implications for the origins of the genus Homo”. Science. 333 (6048): 1421–1423. Bibcode:2011Sci...333.1421P. doi:10.1126/science.1203697. PMID21903808.
McPherron, S.P.; Alemseged, Z.; Marean, C.W.; Wynn, J.G.; Reed, D.; Geraads, D.; Bobe, R.; Bearat, H.A. (). „Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia”. Nature. 466 (7308): 857–860. Bibcode:2010Natur.466..857M. doi:10.1038/nature09248. PMID20703305.
"The oldest direct evidence of stone tool manufacture comes from Gona (Ethiopia) and dates to between 2.6 and 2.5 million years (Myr) ago. [...] Here we report stone-tool-inflicted marks on bones found during recent survey work in Dikika, Ethiopia [... showing] unambiguous stone-tool cut marks for flesh removal [..., dated] to between 3.42 and 3.24 Myr ago [...] Our discovery extends by approximately 800,000 years the antiquity of stone tools and of stone-tool-assisted consumption of ungulates by hominins; furthermore, this behaviour can now be attributed to Australopithecus afarensis."
Villmoare, Brian; Kimbel, William H.; Seyoum, Chalachew; Campisano, Christopher J.; DiMaggio, Erin N.; Rowan, John; Braun, David R.; Arrowsmith, J. Ramón; Reed, Kaye E. (). „Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1352–1355. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1352V. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1343. ISSN0036-8075. PMID25739410..
See also: Erin N. DiMaggio; Campisano C.J.; Rowan J.; Dupont-Nivet G.; Deino A.L. (). „Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1355–1359. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1355D. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1415. PMID25739409.
Cela-Conde and Ayala (2003) recognize five genera within Hominina: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus (including Paranthropus), Homo (including Kenyanthropus), Praeanthropus (including Orrorin), and Sahelanthropus. Cela-Conde, C.J.; Ayala, F.J. (). „Genera of the human lineage”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100 (13): 7684–7689. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.7684C. doi:10.1073/pnas.0832372100. PMC164648. PMID12794185.
F. Spoor; M.G. Leakey; P.N. Gathogo; F.H. Brown; S.C. Antón; I. McDougall; C. Kiarie; F.K. Manthi; L.N. Leakey (). „Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Nature. 448 (7154): 688–691. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..688S. doi:10.1038/nature05986. PMID17687323.
F. Spoor; M.G. Leakey; P.N. Gathogo; F.H. Brown; S.C. Antón; I. McDougall; C. Kiarie; F.K. Manthi; L.N. Leakey (). „Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Nature. 448 (7154): 688–691. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..688S. doi:10.1038/nature05986. PMID17687323. "A partial maxilla assigned to H. habilis reliably demonstrates that this species survived until later than previously recognized, making an anagenetic relationship with H. erectus unlikely"
"A partial maxilla assigned to H. habilis reliably demonstrates that this species survived until later than previously recognized, making an anagenetic relationship with H. erectus unlikely. The discovery of a particularly small calvaria of H. erectus indicates that this taxon overlapped in size with H. habilis, and may have shown marked sexual dimorphism. The new fossils confirm the distinctiveness of H. habilis and H. erectus, independently of overall cranial size, and suggest that these two early taxa were living broadly sympatrically in the same lake basin for almost half a million years."
Spoor, F; Leakey, M.G; Gathogo, P.N; Brown, F.H; Antón, S.C; McDougall, I; Kiarie, C; Manthi, F.K.; Leakey, L.N. (). „Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Nature. 448 (7154): 688–691. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..688S. doi:10.1038/nature05986. PMID17687323.
Saylor, Beverly Z.; Scott, Gary; Levin, Naomi E.; Deino, Alan; Alene, Mulugeta; Ryan, Timothy M.; Melillo, Stephanie M.; Gibert, Luis; Haile-Selassie, Yohannes (). „New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity”. Nature (în engleză). 521 (7553): 483–488. Bibcode:2015Natur.521..483H. doi:10.1038/nature14448. ISSN1476-4687. PMID26017448.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones; Robert Martin; David Pilbeam. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242. Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp. 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of a jawbone: Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
Confirmed H. habilis fossils are dated to between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago. This date range overlaps with the emergence of Homo erectus. Schrenk, Friedemann; Kullmer, Ottmar; Bromage, Timothy (). „The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils”. În Henke, Winfried; Tattersall, Ian. Handbook of Paleoanthropology. 1. In collaboration with Thorolf Hardt. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 1611–1631. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. ISBN978-3-540-32474-4.
DiMaggio, Erin N.; Campisano, Christopher J.; Rowan, John; et al. (). „Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1355–1359. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1355D. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1415. ISSN0036-8075. PMID25739409. Hominins with "proto-Homo" traits may have lived as early as 2.8 million years ago, as suggested by a fossil jawbone classified as transitional between Australopithecus and Homo discovered in 2015.
Muttoni, Giovanni; Scardia, Giancarlo; Kent, Dennis V.; Swisher, Carl C.; Manzi, Giorgio (). „Pleistocene magnetochronology of early hominin sites at Ceprano and Fontana Ranuccio, Italy”. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 286 (1–2): 255–268. Bibcode:2009E&PSL.286..255M. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.032.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones, Robert Martin & David Pilbeam (eds.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242.Mentenanță CS1: Utilizează parametrul editori (link)
Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52.
Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of LD 350-1:
Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones, Robert Martin & David Pilbeam (eds.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242.Mentenanță CS1: Utilizează parametrul editori (link)
Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52.
Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of LD 350-1:
Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
Lowery, R.K.; Uribe, G.; Jimenez, E.B.; Weiss, M.A.; Herrera, K.J.; Regueiro, M.; Herrera, R.J. (). „Neanderthal and Denisova genetic affinities with contemporary humans: Introgression versus common ancestral polymorphisms”. Gene. 530 (1): 83–94. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2013.06.005. PMID23872234.
This study raises the possibility of observed genetic affinities between archaic and modern human populations being mostly due to common ancestral polymorphisms.
Pickering, R.; Dirks, P.H.; Jinnah, Z.; De Ruiter, D.J.; Churchill, S.E.; Herries, A.I.; Berger, L.R. (). „Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and implications for the origins of the genus Homo”. Science. 333 (6048): 1421–1423. Bibcode:2011Sci...333.1421P. doi:10.1126/science.1203697. PMID21903808.
McPherron, S.P.; Alemseged, Z.; Marean, C.W.; Wynn, J.G.; Reed, D.; Geraads, D.; Bobe, R.; Bearat, H.A. (). „Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia”. Nature. 466 (7308): 857–860. Bibcode:2010Natur.466..857M. doi:10.1038/nature09248. PMID20703305.
"The oldest direct evidence of stone tool manufacture comes from Gona (Ethiopia) and dates to between 2.6 and 2.5 million years (Myr) ago. [...] Here we report stone-tool-inflicted marks on bones found during recent survey work in Dikika, Ethiopia [... showing] unambiguous stone-tool cut marks for flesh removal [..., dated] to between 3.42 and 3.24 Myr ago [...] Our discovery extends by approximately 800,000 years the antiquity of stone tools and of stone-tool-assisted consumption of ungulates by hominins; furthermore, this behaviour can now be attributed to Australopithecus afarensis."
Villmoare, Brian; Kimbel, William H.; Seyoum, Chalachew; Campisano, Christopher J.; DiMaggio, Erin N.; Rowan, John; Braun, David R.; Arrowsmith, J. Ramón; Reed, Kaye E. (). „Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1352–1355. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1352V. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1343. ISSN0036-8075. PMID25739410..
See also: Erin N. DiMaggio; Campisano C.J.; Rowan J.; Dupont-Nivet G.; Deino A.L. (). „Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1355–1359. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1355D. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1415. PMID25739409.
Cela-Conde and Ayala (2003) recognize five genera within Hominina: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus (including Paranthropus), Homo (including Kenyanthropus), Praeanthropus (including Orrorin), and Sahelanthropus. Cela-Conde, C.J.; Ayala, F.J. (). „Genera of the human lineage”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100 (13): 7684–7689. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.7684C. doi:10.1073/pnas.0832372100. PMC164648. PMID12794185.
Wood and Richmond; Richmond, BG (). „Human evolution: taxonomy and paleobiology”. Journal of Anatomy. 197 (Pt 1): 19–60. doi:10.1046/j.1469-7580.2000.19710019.x. PMC1468107. PMID10999270. p. 41: "A recent reassessment of cladistic and functional evidence concluded that there are few, if any, grounds for retaining H. habilis in Homo, and recommended that the material be transferred (or, for some, returned) to Australopithecus (Wood & Collard, 1999)."
F. Spoor; M.G. Leakey; P.N. Gathogo; F.H. Brown; S.C. Antón; I. McDougall; C. Kiarie; F.K. Manthi; L.N. Leakey (). „Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Nature. 448 (7154): 688–691. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..688S. doi:10.1038/nature05986. PMID17687323.
F. Spoor; M.G. Leakey; P.N. Gathogo; F.H. Brown; S.C. Antón; I. McDougall; C. Kiarie; F.K. Manthi; L.N. Leakey (). „Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Nature. 448 (7154): 688–691. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..688S. doi:10.1038/nature05986. PMID17687323. "A partial maxilla assigned to H. habilis reliably demonstrates that this species survived until later than previously recognized, making an anagenetic relationship with H. erectus unlikely"
"A partial maxilla assigned to H. habilis reliably demonstrates that this species survived until later than previously recognized, making an anagenetic relationship with H. erectus unlikely. The discovery of a particularly small calvaria of H. erectus indicates that this taxon overlapped in size with H. habilis, and may have shown marked sexual dimorphism. The new fossils confirm the distinctiveness of H. habilis and H. erectus, independently of overall cranial size, and suggest that these two early taxa were living broadly sympatrically in the same lake basin for almost half a million years."
Spoor, F; Leakey, M.G; Gathogo, P.N; Brown, F.H; Antón, S.C; McDougall, I; Kiarie, C; Manthi, F.K.; Leakey, L.N. (). „Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Nature. 448 (7154): 688–691. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..688S. doi:10.1038/nature05986. PMID17687323.
Curnoe, D (). „A review of early Homo in southern Africa focusing on cranial, mandibular and dental remains, with the description of a new species (Homo gautengensis sp. nov.)”. HOMO – Journal of Comparative Human Biology. 61 (3): 151–177. doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2010.04.002. PMID20466364.
Berger, Lee R.; Hawks, John; Dirks, Paul HGM; Elliott, Marina; Roberts, Eric M. (). „Homo naledi and Pleistocene hominin evolution in subequatorial Africa”. eLife (în engleză). 6. doi:10.7554/elife.24234. PMID28483041.
Saylor, Beverly Z.; Scott, Gary; Levin, Naomi E.; Deino, Alan; Alene, Mulugeta; Ryan, Timothy M.; Melillo, Stephanie M.; Gibert, Luis; Haile-Selassie, Yohannes (). „New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity”. Nature (în engleză). 521 (7553): 483–488. Bibcode:2015Natur.521..483H. doi:10.1038/nature14448. ISSN1476-4687. PMID26017448.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones; Robert Martin; David Pilbeam. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242. Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp. 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of a jawbone: Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
Zeitoun, Valery (). „High occurrence of a basicranial feature in Homo erectus: Anatomical description of the preglenoid tubercle”. The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist (în engleză). 274B (1): 148–156. doi:10.1002/ar.b.10028. ISSN1552-4914. PMID12964205.
Dembo (). „The evolutionary relationships and age of Homo naledi: An assessment using dated Bayesian phylogenetic methods”. Journal of Human Evolution. 97: 17–26. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.04.008. PMID27457542.
Confirmed H. habilis fossils are dated to between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago. This date range overlaps with the emergence of Homo erectus. Schrenk, Friedemann; Kullmer, Ottmar; Bromage, Timothy (). „The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils”. În Henke, Winfried; Tattersall, Ian. Handbook of Paleoanthropology. 1. In collaboration with Thorolf Hardt. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 1611–1631. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. ISBN978-3-540-32474-4.
DiMaggio, Erin N.; Campisano, Christopher J.; Rowan, John; et al. (). „Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1355–1359. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1355D. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1415. ISSN0036-8075. PMID25739409. Hominins with "proto-Homo" traits may have lived as early as 2.8 million years ago, as suggested by a fossil jawbone classified as transitional between Australopithecus and Homo discovered in 2015.
Curnoe, Darren (iunie 2010). „A review of early Homo in southern Africa focusing on cranial, mandibular and dental remains, with the description of a new species (Homo gautengensis sp. nov.)”. HOMO – Journal of Comparative Human Biology. 61 (3): 151–177. doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2010.04.002. ISSN0018-442X. PMID20466364. A species proposed in 2010 based on the fossil remains of three individuals dated between 1.9 and 0.6 million years ago. The same fossils were also classified as H. habilis, H. ergaster or Australopithecus by other anthropologists.
Dirks, P.; et al. (). „The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa”. eLife. 6: e24231. doi:10.7554/eLife.24231. PMID28483040.
H. erectus in the narrow sense (the Asian species) was extinct by 140,000 years ago, Homo erectus soloensis, found in Java, is considered the latest known survival of H. erectus. Formerly dated to as late as 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, a 2011 study pushed back the date of its extinction of H. e. soloensis to 143,000 years ago at the latest, more likely before 550,000 years ago. Indriati E, Swisher CC III, Lepre C, Quinn RL, Suriyanto RA, et al. 2011 The Age of the 20 Meter Solo River Terrace, Java, Indonesia and the Survival of Homo erectus in Asia.PLoS ONE 6(6): e21562. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021562.
H. erectus in the narrow sense (the Asian species) was extinct by 140,000 years ago, Homo erectus soloensis, found in Java, is considered the latest known survival of H. erectus. Formerly dated to as late as 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, a 2011 study pushed back the date of its extinction of H. e. soloensis to 143,000 years ago at the latest, more likely before 550,000 years ago. Indriati E, Swisher CC III, Lepre C, Quinn RL, Suriyanto RA, et al. 2011 The Age of the 20 Meter Solo River Terrace, Java, Indonesia and the Survival of Homo erectus in Asia.PLoS ONE 6(6): e21562.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021562.
Formerly dated to as late as 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, a 2011 study pushed back the date of its extinction of H. e. soloensis to 143,000 years ago at the latest, more likely before 550,000 years ago.
Indriati E, Swisher CC III, Lepre C, Quinn RL, Suriyanto RA, et al. 2011 The Age of the 20 Meter Solo River Terrace, Java, Indonesia and the Survival of Homo erectus in Asia.PLoS ONE 6(6): e21562. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021562.
" A fresh look at brain size, hand morphology and earliest technology suggests that a number of key Homo attributes may already be present in generalized species of Australopithecus, and that adaptive distinctions in Homo are simply amplifications or extensions of ancient hominin trends. [...] the adaptive shift represented by the ECV of Australopithecus is at least as significant as the one represented by the ECV of early Homo, and that a major ‘grade-level’ leap in brain size with the advent of H. erectus is probably illusory" William H. Kimbel, Brian Villmoare, "From Australopithecus to Homo: the transition that wasn't", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 13 June 2016, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0248.
"the adaptive coherence of Homo would be compromised if H. habilis is included in Homo. Thus, if these arguments are accepted the origins of the genus Homo are coincident in time and place with the emergence of H. erectus, not H. habilis"
Bernard Wood, "Did early Homo migrate 'out of' or 'in to' Africa?", PNAS vol. 108, no.26 (28 June 2011), 10375–10376.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones, Robert Martin & David Pilbeam (eds.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242.Mentenanță CS1: Utilizează parametrul editori (link)
Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52.
Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of LD 350-1:
Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
Villmoare, Brian; Kimbel, William H.; Seyoum, Chalachew; Campisano, Christopher J.; DiMaggio, Erin N.; Rowan, John; Braun, David R.; Arrowsmith, J. Ramón; Reed, Kaye E. (). „Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1352–1355. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1352V. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1343. ISSN0036-8075. PMID25739410..
See also: Erin N. DiMaggio; Campisano C.J.; Rowan J.; Dupont-Nivet G.; Deino A.L. (). „Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1355–1359. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1355D. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1415. PMID25739409.
Saylor, Beverly Z.; Scott, Gary; Levin, Naomi E.; Deino, Alan; Alene, Mulugeta; Ryan, Timothy M.; Melillo, Stephanie M.; Gibert, Luis; Haile-Selassie, Yohannes (). „New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity”. Nature (în engleză). 521 (7553): 483–488. Bibcode:2015Natur.521..483H. doi:10.1038/nature14448. ISSN1476-4687. PMID26017448.
The conventional estimate on the age of H. habilis is at roughly 2.1 to 2.3 million years. Stringer, C.B. (). „Evolution of early humans”. În Steve Jones; Robert Martin; David Pilbeam. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242. Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage, "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils", chapter 9 in: Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2007, pp. 1611–1631, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. Suggestions for pushing back the age to 2.8 Mya were made in 2015 based on the discovery of a jawbone: Spoor, Fred; Gunz, Philipp; Neubauer, Simon; Stelzer, Stefanie; Scott, Nadia; Kwekason, Amandus; Dean, M. Christopher (). „Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo”. Nature. 519 (7541): 83–86. Bibcode:2015Natur.519...83S. doi:10.1038/nature14224. ISSN0028-0836. PMID25739632..
Zeitoun, Valery (). „High occurrence of a basicranial feature in Homo erectus: Anatomical description of the preglenoid tubercle”. The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist (în engleză). 274B (1): 148–156. doi:10.1002/ar.b.10028. ISSN1552-4914. PMID12964205.
Mounier, A.; Caparros, M. (). „The phylogenetic status of Homo heidelbergensis – a cladistic study of Middle Pleistocene hominins”. BMSAP (în franceză). 27 (3–4): 110–134. doi:10.1007/s13219-015-0127-4. ISSN0037-8984.
Dediu, Dan; Levinson, Stephen C. (). „Neanderthal language revisited: not only us”. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. The Evolution of Language. 21: 49–55. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.01.001. ISSN2352-1546.
Confirmed H. habilis fossils are dated to between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago. This date range overlaps with the emergence of Homo erectus. Schrenk, Friedemann; Kullmer, Ottmar; Bromage, Timothy (). „The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils”. În Henke, Winfried; Tattersall, Ian. Handbook of Paleoanthropology. 1. In collaboration with Thorolf Hardt. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 1611–1631. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. ISBN978-3-540-32474-4.
DiMaggio, Erin N.; Campisano, Christopher J.; Rowan, John; et al. (). „Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia”. Science. 347 (6228): 1355–1359. Bibcode:2015Sci...347.1355D. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1415. ISSN0036-8075. PMID25739409. Hominins with "proto-Homo" traits may have lived as early as 2.8 million years ago, as suggested by a fossil jawbone classified as transitional between Australopithecus and Homo discovered in 2015.
Curnoe, Darren (iunie 2010). „A review of early Homo in southern Africa focusing on cranial, mandibular and dental remains, with the description of a new species (Homo gautengensis sp. nov.)”. HOMO – Journal of Comparative Human Biology. 61 (3): 151–177. doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2010.04.002. ISSN0018-442X. PMID20466364. A species proposed in 2010 based on the fossil remains of three individuals dated between 1.9 and 0.6 million years ago. The same fossils were also classified as H. habilis, H. ergaster or Australopithecus by other anthropologists.
Bischoff, James L.; Shamp, Donald D.; Aramburu, Arantza; et al. (martie 2003). „The Sima de los Huesos Hominids Date to Beyond U/Th Equilibrium (>350 kyr) and Perhaps to 400–500 kyr: New Radiometric Dates”. Journal of Archaeological Science. 30 (3): 275–280. doi:10.1006/jasc.2002.0834. ISSN0305-4403.
The first humans with "proto-Neanderthal traits" lived in Eurasia as early as 0.6 to 0.35 million years ago (classified as H. heidelbergensis, also called a chronospecies because it represents a chronological grouping rather than being based on clear morphological distinctions from either H. erectus or H. neanderthalensis). There is a fossil gap in Europe between
300 and 243 kya, and by convention, fossils younger than 243 kya are called "Neanderthal".
D. Dean; J.-J. Hublin; R. Holloway; R. Ziegler (). „On the phylogenetic position of the pre-Neandertal specimen from Reilingen, Germany”. Journal of Human Evolution. 34 (5). pp. 485–508. doi:10.1006/jhev.1998.0214.