Humanity's Second Cousins - The Story of Paranthropus ~ with ALEXIS WILLIAMS
Channel: Evolution Soup
Date: 23/01/2021

They lived along our ancestors and were very much like them - but then vanished from history. What is the story of the genus Paranthropus and its three fascinating species?

ALEXIS WILLIAMS is a PhD student in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University and studies the fossil record as a way of understanding the evolutionary history of the African hominin, Paranthropus.

MARK from Evolution Soup talks with Alexis about this group of hominids, their amazingly huge teeth, and reasons why they may have gone extinct.

#evolution #paleoanthropology #paranthropus


00:00 START
01:02 Early interests
02:51 Paranthropus overview
12:23 Did Paranthropus use tools?
16:19 Competition between species
19:53 Why did they go extinct?
24:00 New Paranthropus discovery
25:52 Latest projects

 

LINKS FOR ALEXIS WILLIAMS:

Got a question about Paranthropus? Email Alexis at awilliams1004@gwmail.gwu.edu

Instagram: @awilliams9772

Alexis Williams https://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/alexis-williams

Meet Your Exotic, Extinct Close Relative
BY BERNARD WOOD, ALEXIS WILLIAMS https://www.americanscientist.org/article/meet-your-exotic-extinct-close-relative

The Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology https://cashp.columbian.gwu.edu/

Twitter: @gwCASHP

George Washington University: https://www.gwu.edu/


SPECIAL THANKS TO:

https://www.donsmaps.com/

HOMINID RECONSTRUCTIONS:

John Gurche: http://gurche.com/

Élisabeth Daynès http://www.daynes.com/

Kim Seong-mun
/Jeongok Prehistory Museum



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