@article {308450,
	title = {Earliest modern human-like hand bone from a new >1.84-million-year-old site at Olduvai in Tanzania.},
	journal = {Nat Commun},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2015},
	note = {http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150818/ncomms8987/full/ncomms8987.html},
	month = {2015},
	pages = {7987},
	abstract = {<p>Modern humans are characterized by specialized hand morphology that is associated with advanced manipulative skills. Thus, there is important debate in paleoanthropology about the possible cause-effect relationship of this modern human-like (MHL) hand anatomy, its associated grips and the invention and use of stone tools by early hominins. Here we describe and analyse Olduvai Hominin (OH) 86, a manual proximal phalanx from the recently discovered >1.84-million-year-old (Ma) Philip Tobias Korongo (PTK) site at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). OH 86 represents the earliest MHL hand bone in the fossil record, of a size and shape that differs not only from all australopiths, but also from the phalangeal bones of the penecontemporaneous and geographically proximate OH 7 partial hand skeleton (part of the Homo habilis holotype). The discovery of OH 86 suggests that a hominin with a more MHL postcranium co-existed with Paranthropus boisei and Homo habilis at Olduvai during Bed I times.</p>},
	keywords = {Animals, Fossils, Hand Bones, Hominidae, Tanzania},
	issn = {2041-1723},
	doi = {10.1038/ncomms8987},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26285128},
	author = {Dom{\'\i}nguez-Rodrigo, Manuel and Pickering, Travis Rayne and Alm{\'e}cija, Sergio and Heaton, Jason L and Baquedano, Enrique and Mabulla, Audax and Uribelarrea, David}
}
