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	Kenyanthropus platyops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kenyanthropus is a 3.5 - 3.2 million year old extinct Hominid genus that was discovered in Kenya in 1999.
		The fossil found features of a broad flat face with a toe bone that suggests it probably walked upright.
		There is only one described species; Kenyanthropus platyops which means "Flat faced man of Kenya".
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/k/ke/kenyanthropus_platyops.html (85 words)

	Kenyanthropus platyops -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The (The remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil) fossil found features of a broad flat face with a toe bone that suggests it probably walked upright.
		Teeth are intermediate between typical (Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae) human and typical (Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all) ape forms.
		It may simply be a specimen of (Fossils found in Ethiopia; from 3.5 to 4 million years ago) Australopithecus afarensis, which is known from the same time period and geographic area.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ke/kenyanthropus_platyops.htm (176 words)

	Skull beneath the skin
		This is not to say that kenyanthropus would have been any more human in its behaviour than australopithecus - still less does it mean that the lineage that leads to humans, specifically, can definitively be traced back 3.5m years.
		Kenyanthropus has a very similar, flattened face, but is almost twice as ancient as 1470.
		At the moment, kenyanthropus adds an exclamation mark to what has been, for some time, the confused state of our understanding of human evolution.
	www.arcl.ed.ac.uk /a1/stoppress/stop579.htm (1029 words)

	Did Humans Descend From Lucy Or From Newly Discovered Creature?
		The Kenyanthropus platyops fossils were discovered in 1998 and 1999, with the skull found in August 1999 by Justus Erus, a Kenyan research assistant working with Meave Leakey near the Lomekwi River in the western Turkana basin in northern Kenya.
		Brown said the Kenyanthropus discovery illustrates that "at almost every time in the past back to 4 million years, there were two or more species of hominid existing on Earth.
		Brown, Gathogo and McDougall estimated the Kenyanthropus skull's age by indirectly dating surrounding layers of tuff, which is rock deposited when ash from volcanic eruptions in Ethiopia was carried to the Turkana region by rivers and wind.
	www.comdig.org /send_article.php?id_article=1744 (552 words)

	News in Science - Long lost cousin found in Africa - 22/03/2001
		Kenyanthropus shows a strange mix of primitive and advanced features indicating that it forms part of a side branch of human evolution which has never been seen before.
		Kenyanthropus appears to have evolved from an australopithicine ancestor and the younger Homo ruldolphensis may have evolved from it (which means H.
		Kenyanthropus platyops was alive at the same time as at least one other human ancestor (Australopithecus afarensis) and adds weight to the theory that humans have branched out several times during their evolution.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s263838.htm (360 words)

	New Hominin Genus from Eastern Africa Shows Diverse Middle Pliocene Lineages
		This article announces a new genus and species of early human, Kenyanthropus platyops, which is based on fossilized bone remains found at the Lomekwi localities in the Turkana District of northern Kenya.
		Instead, they identify features of the Kenyanthropus lower face that are unique, including the projection of the lower face, the shape and positioning of the facial bones, and tooth morphology.
		Kenyanthropus is that new branch in the family tree (see the human phylogenetic tree for a diagram).
	www.mnh.si.edu /anthro/humanorigins/whatshot/2001/wh2001-4.html (683 words)

	Science News: Hominid tree gets trimmed twice - Ancestral Bushwhack - changed standards for identifying hominid species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kenyanthropus displays bone cracking and twisting comparable to that in the most distorted oreodont fossils, White contends.
		In his view, Kenyanthropus may actually have been a form of Australothecus afarensis, the 3-million-to-4-million-year-old species that includes the famous partial skeleton called Lucy, which White codiscovered.
		The Kenyanthropus skull exhibits extensive cracking but remains symmetrical and thus provides a reliable view of the ancient hominid, Tattersall says.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_18_163/ai_101941077 (669 words)

	Did Humans Descend From Lucy Or From Newly Discovered Creature?
		The study in Nature scrupulously avoids taking a position on which species may be the direct ancestor of modern people.
		Brown and Gathogo had suggested Leakey look for fossils in the area where Kenyanthropus platyops ultimately was found because they noticed lots of undisturbed antelope and hippopotamus fossils there, indicating it had not yet been picked over by field crews.
		Kenyanthropus platyops resembles skull 1470 found in the eastern Turkana basin in the 1970s.
	www.comdig.org /print_article.php?id_article=1744 (643 words)

	USATODAY.com - Discovery rocks human-origin theories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The discoverers, led by Meave Leakey, wife of paleontologist Richard Leakey, say the discovery means that modern humans could have sprung from at least two possible lineages, not one.
		Leakey also says Kenyanthropus could replace Lucy as the best candidate on the human family tree for our direct ancestor, but she says neither Lucy nor the new fossil is necessarily "the one."
		Kenyanthropus lived at the same time as Lucy, but farther south in an area known today as Lake Turkana, Leakey says.
	www.usatoday.com /news/science/2001-03-21-skull.htm (365 words)

	2001 / science notes - GeoRpts n31
		The researchers believe the skulls should be placed in a new genus because they have several characters that differentiate them from the australopithecine genus as well as Paranthropus and Homo.
		If the small molar size is accepted as a primitive character, Kenyanthropus would replace the australopithecines in the evolutionary tree.
		The author proposes a new lineage for evolutionary relationships based on the discoveries by Leakey and colleagues and suggests that H.
	www.grisda.org /georpts/31sci.htm (871 words)

	National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The skull of Kenyanthropus platyops was discovered in 1999 by Justus Erus, a team member.
		Before the discovery of Kenyanthropus platyops, most scientists believed that hominins did not develop a flat face until approximately two million years ago.
		Kenyanthropus platyops helps to fill in the picture of this period of evolution, said Lieberman.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/03/0320_leakeyfind.html (739 words)

	Flatfaced skeleton find alters human evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Christened Kenyanthropus platyops, the flat-faced man of Kenya, the skull featured in a science journal, Nature.
		Kenyanthropus looked different than hominids about at the time, with remarkably human features.
		Kenyanthropus is very similar to the skull KNM-ER 1470, discovered in the 1970s by Richard Leakey and colleagues on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana and named Homo rudolfensis.
	www.anomalous-images.com /news/news674.html (424 words)

	Early Humans: University of Utah News Release: March 21, 2001
		Discovery of the fossils of Kenyanthropus platyops – meaning flat-faced human from Kenya – will be reported in the March 22 issue of the journal Nature by a team led by paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya.
		Brown and University of Utah geology undergraduate Patrick Nduru Gathogo co-authored the study, along with Fred Spoor of University College London, Ian McDougall of The Australian National University in Canberra and Christopher Kiarie and Louise Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya.
		The smaller molars in Kenyanthropus suggest it probably had a different diet than Australopithecus, so both could have lived in the same area at the same time without directly competing for food, Leakey and Spoor said.
	www.utah.edu /unews/releases/releases/01/mar/cranium.html (1058 words)

	Evolution: Humans: Origins of Humankind
		Kenyanthropus platyops (3.5 to 3.3 million years ago)
		Although Kenyanthropus platyops occupied parts of Africa at the same time as A.
		Similarities between these species might be explained in terms of convergent evolution, in which two distinct groups adapt to similar environmental conditions in similar ways, or by the possibility of a direct ancestral line between K.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/e.html (263 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Flat-faced man is puzzle
		Leakey and her fellow researchers have called the creature Kenyanthropus platyops - the Flat-Faced Man of Kenya - and claim in the journal Nature that it represents an entirely new branch on our family tree.
		Scientists are struggling to sort the relationships between their diverse collection of hominids (species of bipeds that are more closely related to humans than to apes).
		The features seen in Kenyanthropus platyops look very similar to those in a skull discovered by Meave Leakey's husband, Richard, on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in the 1970s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1234000/1234006.stm (458 words)

	The Leakey Foundation - AnthroQuest Online
		What the appearance of Kenyanthropus implies for afarensis's role as a possible ancestor to later humans remains uncertain.
		Kenyanthropus bears at least a passing resemblance to the famous 1470 Homo cranium found in 1972 by Richard Leakey's team at Koobi Fora.
		Like 1470, Kenyanthropus possesses a broad, flat face across the nose and cheeks but with a much smaller brain and back teeth.
	www.leakeyfoundation.org /newsandevents/n3.jsp?id=152 (1820 words)

	The Genus Kenyanthropus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Until the discovery of Kenyanthropus platyops there was only a single ancestor for modern humans in the early to middle Pliocene, namely Australopithecus afarensis.
		This could suggest that Homo habilis was a dead end, while Kenyanthropus rudolfensis gave rise to Homo erectus and all later human species.
		Kenyanthropus rudolfensis has caused paleoanthropologists to alter their views of human origins.
	www.columbia.edu /~rk2143/web/kenyanthropus/kenyanthro.html (457 words)

	Scientists Discover Second Genus of Early Human [Free Republic]
		Kenyanthropus had a much flatter face than Lucy as well as particularly small molar teeth, leading scientists to believe it fed on a mixture of fruit, berries, grubs and small mammals and birds.
		Yet Leakey et al.'s proposal [8] to erect a new genus, Kenyanthropus, for the fossil is attractive, for the simple reason that none of the other possible solutions seem feasible.
		The nature of Kenyanthropus platyops raises all kinds of questions, about human evolution in general and the behaviour of this species in particular.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3ab930df74bd.htm (5055 words)

	Hominid - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Many extinct hominids have been studied to help understand the relationship between modern humans and the other extant hominids.
		Some of the extinct members of this family include Gigantopithecus, Orrorin, Ardipithecus, Kenyanthropus, Australopithecus and Paranthropus.
		The exact criterion for membership in the Homininae is not clear, but usually includes the species who share more than 97% of their DNA with the modern human genome, and requires the capacity for language and for simple cultures beyond the family or band.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Hominid (542 words)

	New Kenyan Fossil find
		Of particular scientific interest amongst the new finds is the reasonably complete skull which was discovered by research assistant Justus Erus who was working with Meave and Louise Leakey near the Lomekwi River, in northern Kenya.
		Therefore, the differences between Kenyanthropus and Australopithecus probably show that they had different diets and could have existed side by side without direct competition for food resources.
		The team working on the new finds included Christopher Kiarie who carried out the painstaking laboratory preparation of the fossils, Frank Brown and Patrick Gathogo (University of Utah) who studied the earth layers in which the fossils were found, and Ian McDougall (Australian National University) who did the isotopic dating of these layers.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /leakey.htm (415 words)

	Fossil Skull Diversifies Family Tree: Science News Online, March 24, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Newly discovered skull of Kenyanthropus platyops (left) flanks a skull of Homo rudolfensis, which may be reassigned to the genus Kenyanthropus.
		The team that excavated and analyzed the specimen, led by anthropologist Meave G. Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, dubs it Kenyanthropus platyops.
		Leakey's group reassigns the skull to Kenyanthropus based on such shared traits as a flat, sloping lower face, raised cheeks, and flattened brow ridges.
	www.sciencenews.org /20010324/fob1.asp (647 words)

	Carol Ward, Illumination article - Old Bones, page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The name they bestowed upon the creature, Kenyanthropus platyops (flat-faced man of Kenya), was a bombshell.
		The public coming-out for Kenyanthropus occurred in the March 22 edition of the scientific journal Nature.
		Leakey, however, cautioned that it was much too early — and the fossil record far too incomplete — to speculate on Kenyanthropus' place in humanity's family tree.
	rcp.missouri.edu /carolward/illum/illumarticlepg2.html (494 words)

	Kenyanthropus platyops
		To best understand discoveries such as this one of "Kenyanthropus platyops" it is necessary to understand the underlying model used to interpret the fossil.
		This flat-faced, small-toothed fossil creature with a brain the size of a chimpanzee was probably some variety of an ape.
		Kenyanthropus gives them another opportunity for salesmanship until another candidate is found.
	www.creationdefense.org /60.htm (716 words)

	Skull an Evolutionary Riddle / Leakeys' fossil find in Kenya brings more questions than answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Maeve Leakey named the creature Kenyanthropus platyops -- the "flat-faced man of Kenya" -- because its facial structure is remarkably flat compared with many other fossils in the long line of hominids that leads to modern Homo sapiens.
		But in the far distant past, life must have been different for the creatures Leakey calls Kenyanthropus who, she said, resembled large chimpanzees and were just about that size.
		That little creature, barely 3 feet tall, was one of a species in the genus known as australopithecines whose remains have been found in many parts of Africa, from the great Rift Valley on the east to the land-locked desert nation of Chad south of Libya.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/22/MN236638.DTL&type=science (1098 words)

	New Hominid Species Complicates Early Hominid Evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Discovered by Kenyan fossil hunter Justus Erus and Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya during the 1998 and 1999 field seasons, the new found skull, named Kenyanthropus platyops, is strikingly different in appearance from that of its contemporary neighbor Australopithecus afarensis, the species to which the famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy belongs.
		Though 40 percent of Lucy's skeleton had been recovered in 1974, most of her skull, aside from a lower jaw and a few cranial fragments, was missing, leaving may unanswered questions as to her dentition, facial architecture, and brain size.
		Paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey examines the skull of Kenyanthropus platyops.
	www.archaeology.org /online/news/kenya.html (317 words)

	LinkVoyager: Kenyanthropus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nature Science Update: A New Hominid Skull – The researchers call it Kenyanthropus platyops -- The Flat-Faced Man of Kenya.
		This discovery, whose type specimen is a skull found at the site of Lomekwi on the western side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, increases our understanding of the evolution of our species, but also reveals hominin evolution to be more complicated than previously thought.
		Kenyanthropus platyops Meave Leakey announced the discovery of a new genus of fossil hominid that was discovered by her team in August of 1999.
	www.linkvoyager.com /cgi-bin/serve.fcgi/paleoanthropology/kenyanthropus (222 words)

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		… Everyone was so excited we started rejoicing." Brown and Gathogo had suggested Leakey look for fossils in the area where Kenyanthropus platyops ultimately was found because they noticed lots of undisturbed antelope and hippopotamus fossils there, indicating it had not yet been picked over by field crews.
		Over the last 15 years intense and successful fieldwork has doubled the numbers of recognised hominin species, and identified two new genera: Aridipithecus dating back to 4.4 million years ago, and Orrorin, claimed to be the oldest known hominin dating back to 6 million years ago.
		To this complicated picture is now added the genus of Kenyanthropus.
	www.comdig2.de /test/issue_txt.php?id_issue=2001.13 (4541 words)

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