• DOI:10.1016/S0047-2484(86)80043-4
Corpus ID: 83504577

Species recognition in human paleontology

@article{Tattersall1986SpeciesRI,
  title={Species recognition in human paleontology},
  author={I. Tattersall},
  journal={Journal of Human Evolution},
  year={1986},
  volume={15},
  pages={165-175}
}

I. Tattersall

Published 1986

Biology

Journal of Human Evolution

Whatever their exact nature (rarely if ever specified), current generalcriteria for distinguishing species in the human fossil record are deficient Moreover, in discussing species distinctions, inter- and intra-species variability are often confused. The decoupling of morphological from taxic change in the evolutionary process means that there can be no absolute criteria for recognizing species on morphological grounds; however, ranges of morphological variation in closely related species in… CONTINUE READING

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