Were Neanderthals from the Paranthropus lineage? P. neanderthalensis, and conical rib cages

in bipedal •  7 years ago  (edited)

This is pretty cool, Neanderthals are from Paranthropus. Look here:

rib cage of Paranthropus, including P. neanderthalensis, conical

rib cage of Australopithecus and Homo, cylindrical

and the two lineages (Paranthropus and Australopithecus) speciated as early as 6 million years ago, shown by data from Popadin et al[1] last year

for reference, here is KSD-VP-1/1, "Kadanuumuu", 3.58 million years old Australopithecus afaransis, that clearly shows that the human rib cage pre-dates all Paranthropus fossils, including Paranthropus neanderthalensis and Paranthropus deyiremeda from 3.5 million years ago[2].

References

  1. Mitochondrial pseudogenes suggest repeated inter-species hybridization in hominid evolution

  2. New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity

The species tree, building on the data from Popadin et al,

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it was very interesting to know more about it thanks for sharing a detailed post on it

amazing, great inventions, very old fossils, will the ribs not rot after man's death and how long will it last? I like about the study of living things