Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopia

Sileshi Semaw (), Scott W. Simpson, Jay Quade, Paul R. Renne, Robert F. Butler, William C. McIntosh, Naomi Levin, Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo and Michael J. Rogers
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Sileshi Semaw: Indiana University
Scott W. Simpson: Case Western Reserve University-School of Medicine
Jay Quade: University of Arizona
Paul R. Renne: Berkeley Geochronology Center
Robert F. Butler: University of Arizona
William C. McIntosh: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
Naomi Levin: University of Arizona
Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Michael J. Rogers: Southern Connecticut State University

Nature, 2005, vol. 433, issue 7023, 301-305

Abstract: Creatures of the forest? The discovery of 4.5-million-year-old fossils of the hominid Ardipithecus ramidus increases our knowledge of a fascinating stage of human evolution, before hominids left the forests for the open savanna. Fossil finds of this age are rare, but deposits in Gona, Ethiopia, have yielded material from at least nine individuals. Their context shows that they lived in an environment of moderate rainfall woodland, and grasslands.

Date: 2005
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