ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE GENUS HOMO

被引:262
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WOOD, B
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[1] Hominid Palaeontology Research Group, Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool 169 3BX
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10.1038/355783a0
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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It is remarkable that the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of the earliest known representatives of our own genus, Homo, remain obscure. Advances in techniques for absolute dating and reassessments of the fossils themselves have rendered untenable a simple unilineal model of human evolution, in which Homo habilis succeeded the australopithecines and then evolved via H. erectus into H. sapiens-but no clear alternative consensus has yet emerged.
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