Postcranial characters for analyzing hominin relationships and adaptations

A new matrix of postcranial hominin characters is here presented, consisting of 239 characters and 14 taxa. The taxa include extant humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, and the fossil taxa consist of Ardipithecus ramidus, three species of Australopithecus, and seven Homo taxa. The matrix is 65.7% complete, with 2,197 scored character states. The characters are not polarized. These data could be useful for applications in cluster analysis, classification, and phylogeny.