Homo erectus and the Limits of a Paleontological Species
To date, the oldest fossil assigned to the genus Homo is a maxilla found in Hadar (Ethiopia). It derives from a stone tool bearing horizon ...
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# Dispatch  Paleoanthropology: _Homo erectus_ and the Limits of a Paleontological Species

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## Summary

The bushy nature of the human evolutionary tree in the past 3 million years is widely accepted. Yet, a spectacular new fossil of early _Homo_ has prompted some paleoanthropologists to prune our family tree.

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