1. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN HOMINID PALEONTOLOGY IN SOUTH AND EAST AFRICA.
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Tobias, Phillip V.
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PALEONTOLOGY , *HOMINIDS , *PRIMATES , *HISTORICAL geology , *PERSONAL services , *MORPHOLOGY , *POPULATION , *EVOLUTIONARY theories - Abstract
The article focuses on the developments in hominid paleontology in Africa. New studies on the morphology of many specimens with a concomitant better appreciation of the total morphological pattern and of the ranges of variation within populations. The time scale of hominid evolution in East Africa is becoming progressively clearer with new age determinations based upon the potassium-argon method. It is becoming possible to formulate rentative synoptic models of the chronological and phylogenetic relationships between the South and East African fossil hominids and a single pattern of African hominid phylogeny.
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- 1973
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