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- Title
The biogeography of hominid evolution.
- Authors
Andrews, Peter
- Abstract
The article discusses the biogeography of hominid evolution. It focuses on the issue concerning the man's closest living relatives, whether it is African apes, chimpanzees and gorillas, or the orangutans. It is revealed that apes are less abundant in the fossil record but the author believes that the absence of fossils does not necessarily mean absence of ancestral hominids in Africa. Cladistic analysis in the Folinsbee & Brooks book shows that apes and humans followed the same migratory pathways during the middle Miocene. Evidences supporting the cladograms for hominid migrations are presented.
- Subjects
AFRICA; HUMAN evolution; HUMAN origins; FOSSIL hominids; APES; PRIMATES; CHIMPANZEES; CLADISTIC analysis; EMIGRATION &; immigration; BIOLOGICAL classification
- Publication
Journal of Biogeography, 2007, Vol 34, Issue 3, p381
- ISSN
0305-0270
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01693.x