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ArticleNature2026

Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus.

Zeresenay Alemseged, Fred Spoor, Denné Reed, W Andrew Barr, Denis Geraads, René Bobe, Jonathan G Wynn

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Clades, Grades, and the Genus Problem: A Case for Revising Hominin Taxonomy.American journal of biological anthropology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Zeresenay AlemsegedDepartment of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. alemseged@uchicago.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0460-9791
Fred SpoorCentre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8829-7421
Denné ReedDepartment of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
W Andrew BarrDepartment of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Denis GeraadsCR2P-UMR 7207, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, CP 38, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
René BobeDepartment of Science, Gorongosa National Park, Goinha, Mozambique.ORCID 0000-0001-9059-2203
Jonathan G WynnDirectorate for Geosciences, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, USA.

Funding

M. and W. Hearst and the University of Chicago
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Afar depression in northeastern Ethiopia contains a rich palaeontological and archaeological record, which documents 6 million years of human evolution. Abundant faunal evidence links evolutionary patterns with palaeoenvironmental change as a principal underlying force

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FossilsHominidaeAnimalsBiological EvolutionEcosystemEthiopiaHistory, AncientHumansMandible

Identifiers

PMID41565809

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