How Australopithecus provided insight into human evolution

Dean Falk ()

Nature, 2019, vol. 575, issue 7781, 41-42

Abstract: In 1925, a Nature paper reported an African fossil of a previously unknown genus called Australopithecus. This finding revolutionized ideas about early human evolution after human ancestors and apes split on the evolutionary tree.

Keywords: Anthropology; Evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-02839-3

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