Sentences with phrase «rudolfensis as»

Some see rudolfensis as the ancestor of habilis with a decrease in brain size occurring, and others see the two on completely different evolutionary lines.

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

As stated, the attribution of the species rudolfensis to any specimen is somewheat controversial, since many paleoanthropologists do not see rudolfensis as a valid species.

Not exact matches

Then they compared OH 7 with other specimens and found that it has more primitive features, such as a long narrow palate, than do the older Hadar jawbone and members of H. rudolfensis.

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.

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.

Limbs such as the ER 1472 and ER 1481 femora have been attributed to rudolfensis, suggesting a dramatic allometric difference, but there is much questionable about associating postcrania and cranial material together, when there is no objective sample to compare them to (an associated cranium and postcranial material).