- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Series Preface
- [UNTITLED]
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction -
2 Stratigraphy of the Adu-Asa Formation -
3 Volcanic Record of the Adu-Asa Formation -
4 Geochronology -
5 Small Mammals -
6 Cercopithecidae -
7 Hominidae -
8 Carnivora -
9 Bovidae -
10 Suidae -
11 Hippopotamidae -
12 Giraffi dae -
13 Equidae -
14 Rhinocerotidae -
15 Proboscidea -
16 Tubulidentata -
17 Paleoenvironment -
18 Paleobiogeography -
19 Biochronology, Faunal Turnover, and Evolution -
20 Conclusions - Bibliography
- Index
Hominidae
Hominidae
- Chapter:
- (p.159) 7 Hominidae
- Source:
- Ardipithecus kadabba
- Author(s):
Yohannes Haile-Selassie
Gen Suwa
Tim White
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Recent discoveries of hominid remains older than 5 Ma have afforded new perspectives on the origin of the hominid clade. This chapter describes and assesses the key evidence bearing on these issues—the remains of Ardipithecus kadabba from the Middle Awash study area of the Afar Rift. It introduces the major morphological features of the known Ardipithecus kadabba specimens and also infers possible ancestral ape conditions from the morphologies shared by extant great apes and the collective late and middle Miocene fossil ape record.
Keywords: hominid, hominid remains, hominid clade, Ardipithecus kadabba, Middle Awash, Afar Rift, ape, great apes
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Series Preface
- [UNTITLED]
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction -
2 Stratigraphy of the Adu-Asa Formation -
3 Volcanic Record of the Adu-Asa Formation -
4 Geochronology -
5 Small Mammals -
6 Cercopithecidae -
7 Hominidae -
8 Carnivora -
9 Bovidae -
10 Suidae -
11 Hippopotamidae -
12 Giraffi dae -
13 Equidae -
14 Rhinocerotidae -
15 Proboscidea -
16 Tubulidentata -
17 Paleoenvironment -
18 Paleobiogeography -
19 Biochronology, Faunal Turnover, and Evolution -
20 Conclusions - Bibliography
- Index