The results of the present study show that by the early Pleistocene, hominins were already inserted in the carnivore guild. Their regular access to fleshed carcasses invalidates hypotheses positing the kleptoparasitic role of these ancestors. Like any other predator, hominins would have exploited avail...
“[Kanjera South] hominins not only scavenged these head remains, they also transported them some distance to the archaeological site before breaking them open and consuming the brains,” anthropologist Joseph Ferraro, the study’s lead author, toldPhys.org. “This is important because it provides...
These differences in human and great ape MTPJ functional morphology have been used in analyses of fossil hominin pedal remains to assess the degree to which early hominins were capable of pushing off in a manner similar to humans during bipedal locomotion. Typically, human-like morphology is ...
This means that armed with simply an animal’s cranial capacity, which is fairly easy to estimate given complete enough fossils, one can estimate with a bit of confidence its likely age range for M1 emergence. With brain sizes between apes’ and ours, fossil hominins can be estimated to ...
The lonely fossil of a 2.5-year-old early human ancestor has revealed for the first time that the spines of ancient hominins were a lot like ours - and a lot not. New research, published today reveals that Australopithecus afarensis, a human ancestor that lived 3 million years ago, had th...
Early Pleistocene faunivorous hominins were not kleptoparasitic, and this impacted the evolution of human anatomy and socio-ecology Humans are unique in their diet, physiology and socio-reproductive behavior compared to other primates. They are also unique in the ubiquitous adaptation to all biomes ...
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From all of the above it becomes clear that the dispersals of early hominins in the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene into Eurasia were essentially sporadic. Little geographic and temporal continuity is observed between the various dated archaeological contexts, and the lithic assemblages do not demon...
"It's hard to not let these new results on boisei redound to our understanding of the dietary adaptations of all early hominins." Sponheimer and his colleagues found chemical evidence that a related species, Paranthropus robustus, foraged on a generalist diet. The finding also has ...
Fossils of early hominins have been found exclusively in Africa. While the australopiths only spread within Africa, members of the genus Homo were the first to leave their home continent, roughly 2 million years ago, thus expanding their settlement area considerably. Once "out of Africa," ...