Bones of Contention: Shifting Paradigms in Human Evolution with the Skeletons of Australopithecus sediba

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dc.contributor.authorBerger, Lee R.
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-05T14:30:25Z
dc.date.available2024-09-05T14:30:25Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionInaugural lecture presented at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2013.
dc.description.abstractIn summary, at first glance Australopithecus sediba appears to add despairing complexity to our present understanding of the emergence of early Homo by adding yet another species, this time with an unexpected mosaic of primitive and derived characters, to what we thought we knew of the experiments occurring between the last australopiths and the first definitive members of the genus Homo somewhere around 2 million years ago. Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis both appear to show a trend in encephalization without the frontal complexity seen in Australopithecus sediba, as well as a retention of the general megadentia seen in many late australopiths, as well as, at least in the case of Homo habilis, retention of more primitive australopith aspects in its post-cranial anatomy, surprisingly more primitive in some areas than that observed in sediba.
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.description.submitterMM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Health Sciences
dc.identifier.citationBerger, Lee R. (2013). Bones of Contention: Shifting Paradigms in Human Evolution with the Skeletons of Australopithecus sediba. [Inaugural lecture, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/40606
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/40606
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.schoolSchool of Anatomical Sciences
dc.subjectPalaeoanthropology
dc.subjectPhylogeny
dc.subjectHomoplasy
dc.subjectHuman evolution
dc.subjectAustrlopitheces sediba
dc.subjectMalapa
dc.subjectTaung
dc.subjectSterkfontein
dc.subjectGladysvale
dc.subjectMakapansgat
dc.subjectFossil fragments
dc.titleBones of Contention: Shifting Paradigms in Human Evolution with the Skeletons of Australopithecus sediba
dc.typeInaugural lecture
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