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In the news . . . Sifting Through South Africa's Archaeologically Rich Lands -- Los Angeles Times (27 September 2010) New Hominid Species Discovered in South Africa - New York Times (2010-04-08)      1 - "Key" Human Ancestor Found: Fossils Link Apes, First Humans? - National Geographic News (2010-04-08)      2 - Odd Fossil May Be Human Ancestor, Or Dead End - NPR (2010-04-08)      3 - South African fossils could be new hominid species - BBC News (2010-04-08)      4 - 2-million-year-old fossils may help fill key gap in human evolution - Los Angeles Times (2010-04-08)      5 - Fossil skeletons may belong to an unknown human ancestor - Guardian (2010-04-08)      6 - Almost human: closest australopithicine primate found - New Scientist (2010-04-08)      7 - Claim over 'human ancestor' sparks furore - Nature (2010-04-08)      8 - Anthropologist Helps Identify New Species - Texas A&M (2010-04-08)      9 - Fossil Skeletons May Be Human Ancestor - Live Science (2010-04-08)      10 - New Ancestor May Be Ape-Human Link - Discovery News (2010-04-08)      11 - New pre-human species offers evolutionary clues - Reuters (2010-04-08)      12 - Partial skeletons may represent new hominid - Science News (2010-04-08)      13 - New hominid shares traits with Homo species - EurekAlert (2010-04-08)      14 - Fossils shake up our family tree - MSNBC (2010-04-08)      15 - New Hominid Shares Traits With Homo Species: Fossil Find Sheds Light on the Transition to Homo Genus from Earlier Hominids - Science Daily (2010-04-08)      16 - Possible New Human Ancestor Discovered - Wired (2010-04-08)      17 - IU's Carlson among team of scientists announcing new species of prehistoric man - EurekAlert (2010-04-08)      18 - Texas A&M anthropologist helps identify new species of Homo-like fossil found in South Africa - EurekAlert (2010-04-08)      19 - New Fossil May Show How Apes Became Humans - ABC News (2010-04-08)   to top of page / A-Z index Fossil Finger Points to New Human Species - Nature (2010-03-24)      1 - Researchers Discover New Lineage of Ancient Human - Science (2010-03-24)      2 - Bone May Reveal a New Human Group - New York Times (2010-03-24)      3 - DNA Identifies New Ancient Human Dubbed 'X-woman' - BBC News (2010-03-25)      4 - New Species of Human Ancestor Found in Siberia - Guardian (2010-03-24)      5 - Ancient DNA Suggests New Hominid Line - Science News (2010-03-24)      6 - Stranger from Siberia Is New Ancestor of Man, Claim Scientists - Telegraph (2010-03-24)      7 - DNA from Bone Shows New Human Forerunner, and Raises Array of Questions - Washington Post (2010-03-25)      8 - X-Woman Could Forever Change Human History - Discovery News (2010-03-24)      9 - New Human Species Discovered: Mitochondrial Genome of Previously Unknown Hominins from Siberia Decoded - Science Daily (2010-03-25)      10 - Meet X-woman: A Possible New Species of Human - New Scientist (2010-03-24)      11 - Possible New Human Ancestor Found in Siberia - Reuters (2010-03-24)      12 - DNA Reveals New Hominid Ancestor - Wired (2010-03-24)      13 - Fossil Finger Points To New Human Relatives - NPR (2010-03-26)      14 - New Type of Human Discovered via Single Pinky Finger - National Geographic News (2010-03-25)      15 - Evolution Is This a New Species of Human Being? - Guardian (2010-03-26)

Hominids (Hominidae) Early Human Phylogeny -- National Museum of Natural History Times to Remember | Primates -- Contemporary | Primates -- Prehistoric |
Family	Genus	Species	Variety	Example	Alternative Name
Hominids (Hominidae)	Orrorin	tugenensis		"Millenium Man"
	Ardipithecus	ramidus		"Ardi"
	Australo- pithecus	anamensis
		afarensis		"Lucy"
		africanus		Taung
		garhi
		aethiopicus		"Black Skull"	Paranthropus (aka A. robustus)
		boisei		"Zinj"
		robustus		Swartkrans
	Homo	rudolfensis		ER-1470	"Early Homo"
		habilis		Homo habilis
		erectus			"Java Man" "Peking Man"
		sapiens	sapiens
Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathan (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 285 - 290).

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