Fossils of early hominins have been found exclusively in Africa. While the australopiths only spread within Africa, members of the genusHomowere the first to leave their home continent, roughly 2 million years
“We didn’t foresee this result. It appears as if the broad global pattern of proboscidean extinctions in recent geological history could be reproduced without accounting for impacts of early human diasporas. Conservatively, our data refutes some recent claims regarding the ...
However, while examples of the ways in which horses transformed human societies abound across the New and Old Worlds, the process by which Equus caballus transitioned from a wild animal to the basis of many global pastoral economies is poorly understood. Here, we draw upon the archaeological ...
First, they would have found that breastfed piglets often became closely bonded to their individual human caregivers and socialised with people within the wider family and community. That is, through humans intervening in the filial imprinting process, the piglets became tame animals that were ...