Philip Rightmire's guest appearances

Philip Rightmire

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio)

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video)

David Tilman

Jason Mitchell

Jessica Thompson

David Perlmutter

Rob Knight

Tim Weaver

Richard Wrangham

Helen Fisher

Robert Kelly

Daniel Dennett

Baba Brinkman

Martin Rees

Simon Baron-Cohen

Nicholas Humphrey

Bruce Miller

OwlTail

Carta

Harvard’s Philip Rightmire describes the rich array of early hominin fossils discovered at the Dmanisi site in the Georgian Caucasus.  He maintains that these fossils can most reasonably be attributed to Homo erectus, but several of the skeletons display primitive anatomy.  That means that the boundaries between H. erectus and other early Homo taxa are less distinct, making it difficult to identify diagnostic traits.  He concludes that the emergence of the Homo clade was characterized more by an overlap of groups evolving 2.0 to 1.0 mya, rather than obvious diversity between species. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 30639]

CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Philip Rightmire: Dmanisi Variation and Systematics of Early Homo