WHITE, Timothy Douglas (1950 – )
1950 –
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1978
#7277
A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa.
Johanson and colleagues formally named the species Afarensis of the genus Australopithecus in 1978.
1994
#7276
Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia.
Between 1992 and 1994 White and his team discovered the first Ardipithecus ramidus fossils in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia. They named their discovery Ardipithecus ramidus (‘ramid’ means ‘root’ in the Afar langua…
2009
#14083
Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids.
WHITE, Timothy Douglas (1950 – )
ASFAW, Berhane (1954 – )
HAILE-SELASSIE, Yohannes (1961 – ) BEYENE, Yonas & et al.
The authors provide evidence that Ardipithecus may be the beginning of the evolutionary pathway that eventually led to hominids. This pathway was distinct from the evolutionary pathway that led to extant African apes.…