@inbook{c3f36b9b1c16498fb019206c574d2d1f,
title = "The Fossil Evidence for Paranthropus: History of Discovery and Interpretation",
abstract = "We present the fossil evidence for Paranthropus by summarizing the discoveries chronologically. Because the fossil evidence from southern AfricaSouth(ern) Africa was the first to be found, we discuss that before moving on to the evidence from eastern AfricaEastern Africaand MalawiMalawi. Our review of the interpretation of the fossil record of Paranthropus focuses on the alpha taxonomy of the craniodental evidence. Craniodental evidence dominates the fossil record of both Paranthropus robustusParanthropusrobustus and Paranthropus boiseiParanthropusboisei and few postcranial fossils are unequivocally associated with diagnostic craniodental remains, so until we have a better handle on the taxonomic valencyTaxonomytaxonomic valency of limb bones taxonomic debates inevitably concentrate on the craniodental evidence.",
keywords = "Function, Taxonomy",
author = "Grine, \{Frederick E.\} and Wood, \{Bernard A.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.",
year = "2026",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-032-05485-2\_1",
language = "English",
series = "Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "3--28",
booktitle = "Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology",
}