Jared Diamond's first book argued that Pan troglodytes should be made a member of this group, while another member was named for a fossil called the Heidelberg jaw. In 2004, a new dwarf species in this group was discovered on Flores Island and nicknamed the "hobbit". This classification does not currently include the sediba discovered in 2008 at Malapa, though it may be an ancestor of this group. Ernst Mayr proposed reass
Jared Diamond's first book argued that Pan troglodytes should be made a member of this group, while another member was named for a fossil called the Heidelberg jaw. In 2004, a new dwarf species in this group was discovered on Flores Island and nicknamed the "hobbit". This classification does not currently include the sediba discovered in 2008 at Malapa, though it may be an ancestor of this group. Ernst Mayr proposed reassigning the australopithecines (aus-truh-loh-PITH-uh-seenz) to this genus, whose last species to go extinct in Europe was the Neanderthals. With several significant examples discovered by the Leakey family, name this genus that inclues habilis and erectus as well as the sapiens species, modern humans.
Jared Diamond's first book argued that Pan troglodytes should be made a member of this group, while another member was named for a fossil called the Heidelberg jaw.