Table 8.

The presence of modern human-like LHRVs within the taxa recognized in a splitting hominin taxonomy (Y = present; N = not present; ? = not known)

Informal Group	Splitting taxonomy	Body Size	Brain Mass	Dental crown and root formation	Timing of tooth formation and eruption
Basal hominins	S. tchadensis	?	N	?	?
	O. tugenensis	?	?	?	?
	Ar. ramidus s. s.	N	?	?	?
Archaic hominins	Au. anamensis	N	?	?	?
	Au. afarensis s. s.	N	N	N	?
	K. platyops	?	?	?	?
	Au. bahrelghazali	?	?	?	?
	Au. africanus	N	N	N	N
Megadont archaic hominins	Au. garhi	?	N	?	?
	P. aethiopicus	N	N	?	?
	P. boisei s. s.	N	N	N	N*
	P. robustus	N	N	N	N*
Transitional hominins	H. habilus s. s.	N	N	N	N
	H. rudolfensis	Y	N	?	?
Pre-modern Homo	H. ergaster	Y	N	N	N
	H. erectus s. s.	Y	N	N	N
	H. antecessor	?	N	N	Y
	H. heidelbergensis	Y	Y	N	Y
	H. neanderthalensis	Y	Y	Y	Y
Anatomically-modern humans	H. sapiens s. s.	Y	Y	Y	Y

^*Sequence but not timing.