‘Systematics of Miocene apes’ excludes certain Miocene apes
In their paper on Miocene apes, Urciuoli and Alba 2024 wrote:
“The hominin status of the Late Miocene genera Ardipithecus and Sahelanthropus has sometimes been questioned. However, here these genera have been excluded based on the general view further supported by most recent cladistic analyses that they are early hominins.”
According to results from the large reptile tree (LRT, 2318 taxa) these taxa and hominines should not have been excluded. In the LRT these taxa upset traditional systematics (Fig 1) when they are included. Details here and here and here.
Figure 2. The gibbon lineage leading to humans. At right is Australopithecus, a bipedal ape by convergence with humans.
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Figure 1. The gibbon lineage leading to humans. At right is Australopithecus, a bipedal ape by convergence with humans.
According to the LRT
Australopithecus was bipedal by convergence. You would only learn/discover that by including taxa excluded by Urciuolit and Alba.
Don’t follow the ‘general view‘.
Therein lies mediocrity. Test the general view. You might discover something everyone else overlooks. Taxon exclusion remains the number one problem hampering paleontology.
References
Urciuoli A and Alba DM 2023. Systematics of Miocene apes: State of the art of a neverending controversy. Journal of Human Evolution 175:103309.
Homo longi, aka ‘dragon man’, compared to Hylobates, the gibbon
reptileevolution.com/ardipithecus
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