I Tattersall
Biographic Data
| ID | 1153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Tattersall |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Tattersall |
| SIGNATURE | TATTERSALL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Museum of Natural History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0640-8248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Judith Masters 1955-2022 and Fabien Génin 1971-2022
What kind of hominin first left Africa
Recent discoveries of stone tools from Jordan (2.5 Ma) and China (2.1 Ma) document hominin presence in Asia at the beginning of the Pleistocene, well before the conventional Dmanisi datum at 1.8 Ma. Although no fossil hominins documenting this earliest Out of Africa phase have been found, on chronological grounds a pre‐ Homo erectus hominin must be considered the most likely maker of those artifacts. If so, this sheds new light on at least two di…
How assumptions shape the paleosciences
Little Brown Lemurs Come of Age: Summary and Perspective
Recognizing species, present and past
Nobody disputes that nature is meaningfully "packaged" in some way. But debate persists over exactly how (and even whether) the boundaries dividing taxa should (can) be drawn. At one end of the scale, some zealots abstrusely deny real existence to higher taxa.(1) At the other, laborers at the taxonomic rock-face confront genuine challenges in recognizing and delineating the species that systematists agree constitute the most fundamental unit of t…
The mystery of language evolution
Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research on this problem as well as a sense that considerable progress has been made. We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no explanation of how and why our linguistic computations and representations evolved. We show that…
The morphological distinctiveness of Homo sapiens and its recognition in the fossil record: Clarifying the problem
Species are historically differentiated entities that, osteologically, may be differentiated to inconveniently varying extents. Living Homo sapiens is a distinctive morphological entity that is easily distinguished in both cranial and postcranial morphology from all other living hominoids and from the vast majority of its fossil relatives. In this contribution, we offer several apparent cranial apomorphies of the living species, while recognizing…
The distinctiveness and systematic context of Homo neanderthalensis
Neanderthal Skeletal Structure and the Place of Homo neanderthalensis in European Hominid Phylogeny
Paleoanthropology: The last half-century
Paleoanthropology: The last half-century
Significance of some previously unrecognized apomorphies in the nasal region of Homo neanderthalensis.
For many years, the Neanderthals have been recognized as a distinctive extinct hominid group that occupied Europe and western Asia between about 200,000 and 30,000 years ago. It is still debated, however, whether these hominids belong in their own species, Homo neanderthalensis, or represent an extinct variant of Homo sapiens. Our ongoing studies indicate that the Neanderthals differ from modern humans in their skeletal anatomy in more ways than …
Morphology and phylogeny
What do we mean by human—and why does it matter
Biological and cultural innovation in human evolution
Human origins and the origins of humanity
The roles of ecological and behavioral observation in species recognition among primates
Tarsiers, adapids and the integrity of Strepsirhini
Chromosomes of lemuriformes. VI. Comparative karyology ofLemur fulvus: A g-banded karyotype ofLemur fulvus mayottensis (Schlegel 1866)
Reconstruction of hominid phylogeny: A testable framework based on cladistic analysis
Reconstruction of hominid phylogeny: A testable framework based on cladistic analysis
The mystery of language evolution
Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research on this problem as well as a sense that considerable progress has been made. We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no explanation of how and why our linguistic computations and representations evolved. We show that…
Tarsiers, adapids and the integrity of Strepsirhini
The roles of ecological and behavioral observation in species recognition among primates
Neanderthal Skeletal Structure and the Place of Homo neanderthalensis in European Hominid Phylogeny
Chromosomes of lemuriformes. VI. Comparative karyology ofLemur fulvus: A g-banded karyotype ofLemur fulvus mayottensis (Schlegel 1866)
Reconstruction of hominid phylogeny: A testable framework based on cladistic analysis
Chromosomes of lemuriformes. VI. Comparative karyology ofLemur fulvus: A g-banded karyotype ofLemur fulvus mayottensis (Schlegel 1866)
Tarsiers, adapids and the integrity of Strepsirhini
The roles of ecological and behavioral observation in species recognition among primates
Biological and cultural innovation in human evolution
Human origins and the origins of humanity
Morphology and phylogeny
What do we mean by human—and why does it matter
Significance of some previously unrecognized apomorphies in the nasal region of Homo neanderthalensis.
For many years, the Neanderthals have been recognized as a distinctive extinct hominid group that occupied Europe and western Asia between about 200,000 and 30,000 years ago. It is still debated, however, whether these hominids belong in their own species, Homo neanderthalensis, or represent an extinct variant of Homo sapiens. Our ongoing studies indicate that the Neanderthals differ from modern humans in their skeletal anatomy in more ways than …
Paleoanthropology: The last half-century
Paleoanthropology: The last half-century
The distinctiveness and systematic context of Homo neanderthalensis
Neanderthal Skeletal Structure and the Place of Homo neanderthalensis in European Hominid Phylogeny
The morphological distinctiveness of Homo sapiens and its recognition in the fossil record: Clarifying the problem
Species are historically differentiated entities that, osteologically, may be differentiated to inconveniently varying extents. Living Homo sapiens is a distinctive morphological entity that is easily distinguished in both cranial and postcranial morphology from all other living hominoids and from the vast majority of its fossil relatives. In this contribution, we offer several apparent cranial apomorphies of the living species, while recognizing…
Recognizing species, present and past
Nobody disputes that nature is meaningfully "packaged" in some way. But debate persists over exactly how (and even whether) the boundaries dividing taxa should (can) be drawn. At one end of the scale, some zealots abstrusely deny real existence to higher taxa.(1) At the other, laborers at the taxonomic rock-face confront genuine challenges in recognizing and delineating the species that systematists agree constitute the most fundamental unit of t…
The mystery of language evolution
Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research on this problem as well as a sense that considerable progress has been made. We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no explanation of how and why our linguistic computations and representations evolved. We show that…
Little Brown Lemurs Come of Age: Summary and Perspective
How assumptions shape the paleosciences
What kind of hominin first left Africa
Recent discoveries of stone tools from Jordan (2.5 Ma) and China (2.1 Ma) document hominin presence in Asia at the beginning of the Pleistocene, well before the conventional Dmanisi datum at 1.8 Ma. Although no fossil hominins documenting this earliest Out of Africa phase have been found, on chronological grounds a pre‐ Homo erectus hominin must be considered the most likely maker of those artifacts. If so, this sheds new light on at least two di…
Judith Masters 1955-2022 and Fabien Génin 1971-2022
Biology (15 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 works) · Evolutionary biology (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (8 works) · Zoology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works)