Stratigraphic ranges of Plio-Pleistocene
species of the Hominidae
Broken portions of bars represent fossil
material tentatively assigned to species.... The species Homo habilis
is a somewhat problematic taxonomic entity. Also, the robust australopithecines,
A.
boisei and A. robustus, may constitute a single species." Note
the overlap of Australopithecus and Homo between 1.5 ~ 2.5
MYBP. Neanderthals are usually classified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
[Stanley 1978]
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2005 by Steven M. Carr