The Story of Hominin, Part I: pre-Homo

In a contemplative article, Bernard Wood, the doyen of hominin taxonomy, identified three boundary problems in the business. The first is, of course, where to draw the line between ape and man; more precisely, the boundary between "ape-like" hominid and man-like hominin fossils. [Hominid includes the great apes; hominin does not.] It is not simply a mat…