Sentences with phrase «homo rudolfensis»

Homo rudolfensis may be the first member of the genus Homo on a path to modern humans, or it may be a more Homo — like australopithecine with no direct bearing on the evolution of H. sapiens.

The type specimen of Homo rudolfensis is KNM - ER 1470, discovered by Bernard Ngeneo at Koobi Fora, Kenya, in 1972.

Fossils of Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis were found in the sediment and date to approximately 2 to 1.6 million years ago.

The one to which OH7 belongs is automatically to be called Homo habilis; the other, typified by the famous Lake Turkana skull, ER 1470, is called Homo rudolfensis.

Analysis of Neo and the other remains reveals that H. naledi had features that are shared with some of the earliest known fossil members of our genus, such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis, species that lived two million years ago.

Oldowan refers to the oldest known stone cutting tools, which were likely made by Homo habilis (aka «The Handy Man») and possibly also Homo rudolfensis, Australopithecus garhi and Paranthropus boisei.

Not exact matches

Authors David Lordkipanidze, Marcia S. Ponce de León, Ann Margvelashvili, Yoel Rak, G. Philip Rightmire, Abesalom Vekua and Christoph P. E. Zollikofer say significant anatomical features of this skull can be found in earlier fossils assigned to the genus Homo, such as H. habilis, H ergaster and H. rudolfensis, and argue all comprise a single species within the genus Homo, with less variation among them than can be found within contemporary Homo sapiens.

The genus name of Pithecanthropus has been dropped by those who see rudolfensis as a valid species and replaced with the genus Homo.