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Debate about species recognition in the primate fossil record is pervasive. Numerous studies have come to different conclusions regarding the sexual and taxonomic composition of, for example, Proconsul samples from East Africa (Kelley, 1987; Pickford, 1986), Sivapithecus from Asia (Kay, 1982a,b; Wu and Oxnard, 1983), hominoids from Rain Ravine (Kay, 1982a, Martin and Andrews, 1984), Australopithecus afarensis (Cole and Smith, 1987; Johanson et al, 1982; Kimbel et ai, 1985; Kimbel and White, 1988; Olson, 1981, 1985; Senut and Tardieu, 1985), A. africanus (Zwell and Pilbeam, 1972), and Homo habilis (Wood, 1985, this volume), to name a few. Since the majority of fossil specimens consist of teeth, a good deal of this debate centers on the interpretation of dental variation.
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Plavcan, J.M. (1993). Catarrhine Dental Variability and Species Recognition in the Fossil Record. In: Kimbel, W.H., Martin, L.B. (eds) Species, Species Concepts and Primate Evolution. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3745-2_10
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