• New Hominid Skull -- Nature
  
  
• Kenyanthropus platyops -- archaeology.info
  
  
• Kenyanthropus platyops -- Talk.origins
  
  
• Long lost cousin found in Africa -- ABC News in Science
  
  
• A New Face Joins the Family -- abcNEWS.com
  
  
• Move Over, Lucy: A New Human Ancestor is Found in Kenya -- Africana.com
  
  
• Flat-faced man is puzzle -- BBC
  
  
• Kenyanthropus platyops ("Flat-faced Kenya Man")
  
  
  • New Face Added to Humankind's Family Tree -- National Geographic, 21 March 2001
    
    
  • National Geographic, October 2001, "Human Beginnings," Meave Leakey
    
    
  • Field Dispatch: Kenya

 

Orrorin / Ardipithecus / Australopithecus / Kenyanthropus Early Human Phylogeny -- National Museum of Natural History Times to Remember Timeline -- Maricopa College Hominids | Primates -- Contemporary | Primates -- Prehistoric   to top of page / A-Z index
Subfamily	Genus	Species	Example	Alternative Name
	Orrorin	tugenensis	"Millenium Man"
	Ardipithecus	ramidus	Aramis
Australo- pithecines	Australo- pithecus	anamensis
		afarensis	"Lucy"
		africanus	Taung
		garhi
		aethiopicus	"Black Skull"	Paranthropus (aka A. robustus)
		boisei	"Zinj"
		robustus	Swartkrans
	Kenyanthropus	platyops	"Flat-faced Kenya Man"
Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathand (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 285 - 290).