List of human evolution fossils
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The following tables give a brief overview of several notable hominin fossil finds relating to human evolution beginning with the formation of the Hominini tribe in the late Miocene (roughly 6 million years ago).
As there are thousands of fossils, mostly fragmentary, often consisting of single bones or isolated teeth with complete skulls and skeletons rare,[1] this overview is not complete, but does show some of the most important finds. The fossils are arranged by approximate age as determined by radiometric dating and/or incremental dating and the species name represents current consensus; if there is no clear scientific consensus the other possible classifications are indicated. Deprecated classifications may be found on the fossil's page.
Most of the fossils shown are not considered direct ancestors to Homo sapiens but are closely related to direct ancestors and are therefore important to the study of the lineage.
Undated
Name | Age | Species | Year discovered |
Country | Discovered by | Now located at | |
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Dinaledi Chamber hominins | Undated | Homo naledi | 2013 | South Africa | Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker | University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) | |
Late Miocene
7 million - 5.3 million years old
Name | Age | Species | Year discovered |
Country | Discovered by | Now located at | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TM 266 (Toumai) | 7 Ma[2] | Sahelanthropus tchadensis | 2001 | Chad | Alain Beauvilain, Fanone Gongdibe, Mahamat Adoum and Ahounta Djimdoumalbaye | N'Djamena (Chad), BEAC | ||
BAR 1000'00 | 6 Ma[3] | Orrorin tugenensis | 2000 | Kenya | Martin Pickford, Kiptalam Cheboi, Dominique Gommery, Pierre Mein, Brigitte Senut, | |||
ALA-VP 1/20[4] | 5.5-5.8 Ma | Ardipithecus kadabba | 1997 | Ethiopia | Yohannes Haile-Selassie |
Pliocene
5.3 million - 2.58 million years old
Pleistocene
Lower Paleolithic: 2.58 million - 300,000
Middle Paleolithic: 300,000 - 50,000 years old
Upper Paleolithic: 50,000 - 10,000 years old
Holocene
Mesolithic / Neolithic: 10,000 - 5000 years old
Name | Age | Species | Year discovered |
Country | Discovered by | Now located at | |
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La Brea Woman | ~ 10k | Homo sapiens | 1914 | United States | |||
Combe Capelle | 9.6 k[104] | Homo sapiens | 1909 | France | O. Hauser | ||
Cheddar Man | 9k | Homo sapiens | 1903 | UK | |||
Kow Swamp 1 | 9k - 13k | Homo sapiens | 1968 | Australia | A.G. Thorne | ||
Afalou 13 | 8k - 12k | Homo sapiens | 1920 | Algeria | C. Arambourg | ||
Wadi Halfa 25 | 8k - 12k | Homo sapiens | 1963 | Sudan | G. Armelagos, E. Ewing, D. Greene | ||
Wadi Kubbaniya | 8k - 20k | Homo sapiens | 1982 | Egypt | Fred Wendorf | ||
Minnesota Woman | 7.8 - 8k | Homo sapiens | 1931 | Minnesota, United States | Albert Jenks, via construction crew | ||
Lo 4b[105][106] | 6k - 9k | Homo sapiens | 1965-1975 | H. Robbins B.M. Lynch | |||
Tepexpan man | 5k - 11k | Homo sapiens | 1947 | Mexico | H. de Terra | ||
Del Mar skull | 4.9k - 11.8 | Homo sapiens | 1929 | United States | M.J. Rogers | ||
Ötzi | 5.3k | Homo sapiens | 1991 | Ötztal Alps, Italy | Helmut Simon and Erika Simon |
Abbreviations used in fossil catalog name
- AL – Afar Locality, Ethiopia
- ARA-VP – Aramis Vertebrate Paleontology, Ethiopia
- BAR – (Lukeino, Tugen Hills) Baringo District, Kenya
- BOU-VP – Bouri Vertebrate Paleontology, Ethiopia
- D – Dmanisi, Georgia
- ER – East (Lake) Rudolf, Kenya
- KGA – Konso-Gardula, Ethiopia
- KNM – Kenya National Museum
- KP – Kanapoi, Kenya
- LB – Liang Bua, Indonesia
- LH – Laetoli Hominid, Tanzania
- MH – Malapa Hominin, South Africa
- NG – Ngandong, Indonesia
- OH – Olduvai Hominid, Tanzania
- SK – Swartkrans, South Africa
- Sts, Stw – Sterkfontein, South Africa
- TM – Transvaal Museum, South Africa
- TM – Toros-Menalla, Chad
- WT – West (Lake) Turkana, Kenya
Timelines
See also
Further reading
- Gibbons, Ann. The First Human: The Race to Discover our Earliest Ancestor. Anchor Books (2007). ISBN 978-1-4000-7696-3
- Hartwig, Walter (ed.). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press (2002). Reprinted 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-08141-2.
- Johanson, Donald & Wong, Kate. Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. Three Rivers Press (2009). ISBN 978-0-307-39640-2
- Jones, Steve; Martin, Robert D.; Pilbeam, David R (Editors). (1994). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human evolution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-46786-5 (Note: this book contains very useful, information dense chapters on primate evolution in general, and human evolution in particular, including fossil history).
- Leakey, Richard & Lewin, Roger. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes us Human. Little, Brown and Company (1992). ISBN 0-316-90298-5
- Lewin, Roger. Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins. Penguin Books (1987). ISBN 0-14-022638-9
- Morwood, Mike & van Oosterzee, Penny. A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the 'Hobbits' of Flores, Indonesia. Smithsonian Books (2007). ISBN 978-0-06-089908-0
- Oppenheimer, Stephen. Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World. Constable (2003). ISBN 1-84119-697-5
- Roberts, Alice. The Incredible Human Journey: The Story of how we Colonised the Planet. Bloomsbury (2009). ISBN 978-0-7475-9839-8
- Shreeve, James. The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins. Viking (1996). ISBN 0-670-86638-5
- Stringer, Chris. The Origin of Our Species. Allen Lane (2011). ISBN 978-1-84614-140-9
- Stringer, Chris & Andrews, Peter. The Complete World of Human Evolution. Thames & Hudson (2005). ISBN 0-500-05132-1
- Stringer, Chris & McKie, Robin. African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity. Jonathan Cape (1996). ISBN 0-224-03771-4
- van Oosterzee, Penny. The Story of Peking Man. Allen & Unwin (1999). ISBN 1-86508-632-0
- Walker, Allan & Shipman, Pat. The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins. Weidenfeld and Nicholson (1996). ISBN 0-297-81670-5
- Wade, Nicholas. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of our Ancestors. Penguin Press (2006). ISBN 978-0-7156-3658-9
- Weiss, M.L., & Mann, A.E. (1985). "'Human Biology and Behaviour: An anthropological perspective" (4th ed.). Boston: Little Brown. ISBN 978-0-673-39013-4 (Note: this book contains very accessible descriptions of human and non-human primates, their evolution, and fossil history).
- Wells, Spencer (2004). The Journey of Man : A Genetic Odyssey. New York, NY: Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-8129-7146-0.
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External links
- Interactive map of primate fossil finds around the world
- Informative lecture on Australopithecines
- The Age of Homo sapiens – Interactive Map of Human Evolution Fossils
- Human Timeline (Interactive) – Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History (August 2016).