Miocene Hominids and the Origins of the African Apes and Humans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2296367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David R Begun (0000-0001-8916-6442, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-84 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105047 |
| OpenAlex | W2104980102 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 111 |
In the past 20 years, new discoveries of fossil apes from the Miocene have transformed our ideas about the timing, geography, and causes of the evolution of the African apes and humans. Darwin predicted that the common ancestor of African apes and humans would be found in Africa. Yet the majority of fossil great apes are from Europe and Asia. I briefly review the fossil record of great apes and then examine the main competing hypotheses of our origins, African or European, inspired by these recent discoveries, concluding that elements of both ideas are likely to be correct. Given current interpretations of the paleobiology of fossil apes and relationships among living hominids, I suggest that the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans was morphologically unique, but more chimpanzee-like than hominin-like: a knuckle-walker with a chimpanzee-sized brain, canine sexual dimorphism, and many probable behavioral similarities to living chimpanzees
Ancestor · Archaeology · Australopithecus · Biological evolution · Biology · Evolutionary biology · Fossil Record · Geography · Hominidae · Homo erectus · Human evolution · Out of africa · Paleoanthropology · Pleistocene · Sexual dimorphism · Zoology · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Primate Behavior and Ecology
Comparative Sulcal Morphology of the Late Miocene Fossil Ape, Rudapithecus hungaricus
The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Pelvis
Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids
Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids
Evolution of hominin postcanine macromorphology
Early Hominins
Macroevolutionary Dynamics and Historical Biogeography of Primate Diversification Inferred from a Species Supermatrix
Evolutionary history of orangutan plasmodia revealed by phylogenetic analysis of complete mtDNA genomes and new biogeographical divergence dating calibration models
Estimating origination times from the early hominin fossil record
Vertebral numbers and human evolution
Gigantopithecus blacki
Phylogenetic signal in molar dental shape of extant and fossil catarrhine primates
Forelimb long bones of Nacholapithecus (KNM-BG 35250) from the middle Miocene in Nachola, northern Kenya
The meat of the matter
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution of dryopithecin apes and the evolution of hominid locomotion
Late survival of dryopithecine hominoids in Southern Caucasus
Systematics of Miocene apes
Middle Miocene Pierolapithecus provides a first glimpse into early hominid pelvic morphology
Loss of the subarcuate fossa and the phylogeny of Nacholapithecus
Reanalysis of Samburupithecus reveals similarities to nyanzapithecines
A reassessment of the distinctiveness of dryopithecine genera from the Iberian Miocene based on enamel-dentine junction geometric morphometric analyses
A late Miocene hominid partial pelvis from Hungary
The vertebral remains of the late Miocene great ape Hispanopithecus laietanus from Can Llobateres 2 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)
Phylogenetic analysis of Middle-Late Miocene apes
Estimates of absolute crown strength and bite force in the lower postcanine dentition of Gigantopithecus blacki
Examination of magnitudes of integration in the catarrhine vertebral column
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya
A new dryopithecine mandibular fragment from the middle Miocene of Abocador de Can Mata and the taxonomic status of 'Sivapithecus' occidentalis from Can Vila (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)
The nasal and paranasal architecture of the Middle Miocene ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (primates)
Great apes and humans evolved from a long-backed ancestor
Fossil apes from the vallès-penedès basin
Knuckle-Walking and the Origin of Human Bipedalism
Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids
Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids
Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids
The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominids
Potential Hominoid Ancestors for Hominidae
The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominids
Careful Climbing in the Miocene
Toward a Phylogenetic Classification of Primates Based on DNA Evidence Complemented by Fossil Evidence
Reexamining Human Origins in Light of Ardipithecus ramidus
Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids
A Dryopithecus skeleton and the origins of great-ape locomotion
Combining Prehension and Propulsion
Equatorius
The Pelvis and Femur of Ardipithecus ramidus
A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia
Pierolapithecus catalaunicus , a New Middle Miocene Great Ape from Spain
Fetal Growth of Man and Other Primates
Human evolution
New hominoid skull material from the Miocene of Pakistan
The Great Divides
Paleobiological Implications of the Ardipithecus ramidus Dentition
Miocene Fossil Hominids and the Chimp-Human Clade
Planet of the Apes
New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry
Miocene Hominoids and Hominid Origins
Our ancestors' ancestor
Not fast, slow occlusal wear in Jomon hunter-gatherers
Origin of human bipedalism
Thinking race, thinking development
Handbook of Paleoanthropology
Torso morphology and locomotion in Proconsul nyanzae
Relations among the great apes and humans
First partial face and upper dentition of the Middle Miocene hominoid Dryopithecus fontani from Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès‐Penedès Basin, Catalonia, NE Spain)
A late divergence hypothesis
Phyletic diversity and locomotion in primitive European hominids
Subnasal alveolar morphology and the systematic position of Sivapithecus
Morphology of Afropithecus turkanensis from Kenya
Anatomy of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses in Aegyptopithecus and early Miocene African catarrhines
Origin of the hominidae
On aspects of skull form in African apes and orangutans, with implications for hominoid evolution
Nacholapithecus skeleton from the Middle Miocene of Kenya
Dental microwear of European Miocene catarrhines
Explaining the end of the hominoid experiment in Europe
A newly discovered skeleton and its implications for the evolution of positional behavior in Miocene East African hominoids
New postcranial specimens of catarrhines from the Middle Miocene Chinji Formation, Pakistan
The oldest Eurasian hominoid
A new great ape from the late Miocene of Turkey
Sivapithecus is east and Dryopithecus is west, and never the twain shall meet
Definitive evidence for tail loss in Nacholapithecus, an East African Miocene hominoid
Comparative and functional anatomy of Proconsul phalanges from the Kaswanga Primate Site, Rusinga Island, Kenya
A new cranium of Dryopithecus from Rudabánya, Hungary
The earliest occurrence ofSivapithecus from the middle Miocene Chinji Formation of Pakistan
New partial cranium of Dryopithecus lartet, 1863 (Hominoidea, Primates) from the upper Miocene of Can Llobateres, Barcelona, Spain
Broken fingers
Cladistic relationships of extant and fossil hominoids
Proconsul did not have a tail
Primates from Rudabánya
Inferring hominoid and early hominid phylogeny using craniodental characters
Another look at the anthropoid elbow
Further hominoid postcranial specimens from the Late Miocene Nagri formation of Pakistan
The face and the mandible of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis
A new hominoid species from the middle Miocene site of Paşalar, Turkey
New Sivapithecus postcranial specimens from the Siwaliks of Pakistan
Restoration of the type and palate ofAnkarapithecus meteai
Late Miocene hominid biogeography
| Unique citing works | 31 |
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| Citations per year | 2,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |