ARCH 131 Lecture Notes - Homo Habilis, Homo Rudolfensis, Olduvai Gorge
27 May 2014
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The genus homo is the genus to which we modern humans belong. Getting to this point in our evolutionary history means we are talking about hominin species that it"s difficult not to call human like us. Which fossil hominins researchers decide to include in the genus homo is a particularly important decision since the implication is that they think these are on our own direct evolutionary line. While most researchers tend to agree with the taxonomic decisions made on this so far, we still don"t really have a good idea of where the homo line really originates. Most researchers seem to feel that an ancestry in the. Australopithecine line is a plausible one, but there is certainly not a consensus on this. There are currently at least two very early species of that most researchers assign to the genus homo habilis and homo rudolfensis. Both species appearance dates prior to 2. 0 myr.
