Australopithecus findings could rewrite how we classify millions of years of human evolution

The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree

Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups: Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Each of these is a “genus”, the rank just above a ...
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Famous names in human evolution may be due for retirement

A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.
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Classification and human evolution

The meaning of taxonomic statements / George Gaylord Simpson -- East African fossil Hominoidea and the classification within the super-family / L.S.B. Leakey -- Quantitative taxonomy and human ...