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Description, new reconstruction, comparative anatomy, and classification of the Sterkfontein Stw 53 cranium, with discussions about the taxonomy of other southern African early Homo remainsDarren Curnoe
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
J Hum Evol 50:36-77. 2006..At Swartkrans and Drimolen, we find evidence of H. habilis. We also compare the morphologies of Stw 53 and SK 847 and find compelling evidence to assign the latter specimen to H. habilis, as has been proposed...
Human remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition of southwest China suggest a complex evolutionary history for East AsiansDarren Curnoe
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 7:e31918. 2012..We also undertook new excavations at Maludong (Yunnan Province) to clarify the stratigraphy and dating of a large sample of mostly undescribed human remains from the site...
Evidence of pathological conditions in the Florisbad craniumDarren Curnoe
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia
J Hum Evol 59:504-13. 2010..The Florisbad cranium is the latest specimen to join the growing sample of Pleistocene hominin remains with non-fatal and non-trivial pathological disorders adding to understanding of early human ecology and lifestyle...- A review of early Homo in southern Africa focusing on cranial, mandibular and dental remains, with the description of a new species (Homo gautengensis sp. nov.)D Curnoe
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Homo 61:151-77. 2010..0 to 1.26-0.82 million years BP. Thus, H. gautengensis is probably the earliest recognised species in the human genus and its longevity is apparently well in excess of H. habilis... - Affinities of the Swartkrans early Homo mandiblesDarren Curnoe
Human Origins Group, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Homo 59:123-47. 2008..Moreover, there is considerable morphological variability within the Swartkrans sample and the possibility of more than one novel species being sampled at this site cannot be excluded... - Modern human origins in Australasia: testing the predictions of competing modelsD Curnoe
Human Origins Group, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Homo 58:117-57. 2007..Combined with published evidence from DNA, the present study indicates that the Assimilation model presently offers the best explanation for the origins of Pleistocene Australians... - Odontometric systematic assessment of the Swartkrans SK 15 mandibleD Curnoe
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Homo 57:263-94. 2006..Fossil evidence for the presence of H. sapiens erectus during the Plio-Pleistocene of South Africa presently seems to be lacking. Archaeological interpretations should take greater account of this gap in the fossil record... - Number of ancestral human species: a molecular perspectiveD Curnoe
Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
Homo 53:201-24. 2003..There is a need for greater cooperation between palaeoanthropologists and anthropological geneticists to better understand human evolution and to bring palaeoanthropology into the mainstream of evolutionary biology... - Problems with the use of cladistic analysis in palaeoanthropologyD Curnoe
Sterkfontein Research Unit, School of Anatomical Sciences, Medical School, University of the Witwatersrand, 7 Parktown Road, Parktown 2193, Johannesburg, South Africa
Homo 53:225-34. 2003..The continuing uncertainty over the number and composition of fossil human species is the largest single source of error for cladistics and human phylogenetic reconstruction... - The craniomandibular mechanics of being humanStephen Wroe
Computational Biomechanics Research Group, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 277:3579-86. 2010..Our findings resolve apparently discordant lines of evidence, i.e. the presence of teeth well adapted to sustain high loads within a lightweight cranium and mandible... - Sexual dimorphism in southeast Asian crania: a geometric morphometric approachHayley Green
Department of Medical and Molecular Biosciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Homo 60:517-34. 2009..Significant size dimorphism was also apparent. Overall expected accuracies were highest in the discriminant analysis using both shape and centroid size (86.8%)... - Direct ESR dating of a Pliocene hominin from SwartkransD Curnoe
Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
J Hum Evol 40:379-91. 2001..We conclude that these samples are of Middle to Upper Pleistocene age and their presence in Member 2 was either due to reworking or inadequate stratigraphical discrimination of these deposits... - High-resolution three-dimensional computer simulation of hominid cranial mechanicsStephen Wroe
School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
Anat Rec (Hoboken) 290:1248-55. 2007..We hypothesize that, despite energetic costs, this system may lend adaptive advantage through enhancing the organism's ability to modify its behavior before reaching catastrophic failure in bony or dental structures... - Distribution and population estimate for the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) in KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaOlivia M L Stone
School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Primates 53:337-44. 2012..The small population and highly fragmented distribution of chacma baboons in KZN, combined with rapidly increasing human population size and transformation of natural habitat, suggest this species requires greater conservation attention... - Mandibular fossa of fossil AustraliansHayley Green
Department of Anatomy, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
Homo 56:233-47. 2005..We also test for the possible presence of temporal trends in mandibular fossa size among fossil Australians. Our analyses indicate that none are present... - Timing and tempo of primate speciationD Curnoe
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Evol Biol 19:59-65. 2006..Three taxonomic frameworks may flow from molecular analyses, all of them having major implications for understanding the evolution of humans and chimpanzees... - Human dispersal into AustralasiaMike A Smith
Science 315:597-8; author reply 597-8. 2007