Radical Anthropology

Review of the European Middle #Pleistocene hominin record 'characterized by pronounced morphological variability and persistent taxonomic uncertainty'. Authors argue 'trait-by-trait approaches inflate phylogenetic fragmentation of the fossil record.'

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001605

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'we connect mosaic outcomes to temporal sequence ...in which shifts in body mass/metabolism and later encephalisation/basicranial reorganisation generate coordinated yet asynchronous anatomical change. This process-oriented perspective reduces the need to invoke multiple contemporaneous MP lineages...'