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290-290
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6384
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358
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Earliest Homo Debate - Reply
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1992
1992-07
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Science & Technology - Other Topics
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Hill A; Ward S; Deino A; Curtis G; Drake R
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1038/358290a0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1038/358290a0</a>
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1992
Curtis G
Deino A
Drake R
Hill A
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
Nature
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Ward S
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1038/355719a0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.1038/355719a0</a>
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719-722
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6362
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355
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Earliest Homo
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1992-02
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baringo; calibration; east; fossil hominids; kenya; pliocene; region; Science & Technology - Other Topics; turkana
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Hill A; Ward S; Deino A; Curtis G; Drake R
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THE origin of our own genus, Homo, has been tentatively correlated with worldwide climatic cooling documented at about 2.4 Myr (million years) (refs 1-5). It has also been conjectured that members of Homo made the first stone tools, currently dated at 2.6 - 2.4 Myr (refs 6-8). But fossil specimens clearly attributable to Homo before about 1.9 Myr have been lacking. In 1967 a fossil hominoid temporal bone (KNM-BC1) from the Chemeron Formation of Kenya was described as family Hominidae gen. et sp. indet. 9. Although a surface find, its provenance within site JM85 (BPRP site K002) was established and a stratigraphic section provided indicating the specimen's position 9. This evidence has been affirmed (see for example refs 10-12) but the exact age of the fossil was never determined, and the absence of suitable comparative hominid material has precluded a more definitive taxonomic assignment. Here we present Ar-40/Ar-39 age determinations on material from the hominid site indicating an age of 2.4 Myr. In addition, comparative studies allow us to assign KNM-BC1 to the genus Homo, making it the earliest securely known fossil of our own genus found so far.
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1992
baringo
calibration
Curtis G
Deino A
Drake R
east
fossil hominids
Hill A
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
Kenya
Nature
Pliocene
region
Science & Technology - Other Topics
turkana
Ward S