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Investigating human evolutionary history

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

BERNARD WOOD
BERNARD WOOD
Affiliation:
George Washington University and Human Origins Program, National Museum for Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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Abstract

We rely on fossils for the interpretation of more than 95% of our evolutionary history. Fieldwork resulting in the recovery of fresh fossil evidence is an important component of reconstructing human evolutionary history, but advances can also be made by extracting additional evidence for the existing fossil record, and by improving the methods used to interpret the fossil evidence. This review shows how information from imaging and dental microstructure has contributed to improving our understanding of the hominin fossil record. It also surveys recent advances in the use of the fossil record for phylogenetic inference.

Keywords

Evolutionhomininsdentitioncladisticsimaging
Type
Review
Information
The Journal of Anatomy , Volume 197 , Issue 1 , July 2000 , pp. 3 - 17
Copyright
© Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2000

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