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This 6 page paper discusses the theories and possibilities with the discovery of homo rudolfensis. Analysis of phylogeny, habits, and other attributes discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Rudolfensis added more fuel to the evolutionary fire with its differences in structure, habits, and classification. This lead scientists to believe that they may have been looking at the proverbial
missing link. But is homo rudolfensis the missing link, or merely another tangential cousin? Location: The earliest fossil records date back to 1971 in Kenya. It was a
mandible that was found which was less robust as the earlier hominids. Another find was made a year later, which was of a cranium. The significance of this find was
that the skull was larger, and closer in shape and resemblance to modern man. It was dated to 1.8 million years(Alexeev 1986). Most of the fossil finds have been in Africa.
A good deal of the specimens have been found in Kenya near a body of water called, Lake Turkana at Koobi Fora in northern Kenya(Alexeev 1986). DATING Most of
the dating has placed these new finds at exactly the place that scientists need it to be. For many years there simply had not existed a transition species between the
gracile Australopithecus to the successor species of Homo(Johansan 1996). With the dating that these finds were indicating, this rudolpho was at least one of the missing transition species.
Most scientists disagree on how many hominid species, but most narrow the argument down to at least four species of hominids which inhabited
the Eat Turkana region over a million yeas ago. Scientists are still baffled at the use of stone tools, behavioral proclivities, or anything in depth about these early ancestors of
mankind. RESEARCHER One of the preeminent researchers was Richard Leaky. The type specimen of the species is KNM-ER 1470(Johansen 1996). This particular specimen was found by Leaky in
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