Sentences with phrase «with rudolfensis»

One of the main problems with the rudolfensis species is that there are no postcranial remains that are associated with cranial remains.

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.

The rudolfensis specimens have large brains in conjunction with megadont postcanines, and without postcranial evidence it is unknown whether these features are due to a larger body size than contemporary habilis specimens.

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

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.

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.

sediba is Todd Wood, whose Baraminological analysis places sediba, along with H. habilis and H. rudolfensis, among humans.