How many species of hominin coexisted 100,000 years ago? What dinosaurs lived in the Cretaceous period? What animals lived during the Permian period? What animals lived in the Permian period? How many amphibian species are threatened or endangered?
How many species belong to family Hominidae? How many species are in the class Mammalia? How many animal species are in the Amazon rainforest? How many animal species are there in Antarctica? How many hominin species exist today? How many Hexapoda species are there? How many offspring...
The next hominin to appear wasHomo heidelbergensis. It evolved from aHomo erectuspopulation in Africa about 600,000 years ago. This species’ hyoid – a small bone with an important role in our vocal apparatus – is virtually indistinguishable from ours, and its ear anatomy suggests it would h...
In drawing such inferences, researchers implicitly assume that either there is little variation across human populations, or that WEIRD populations are generally representative of the species. Yet neither of these assumptions is justified. In many psychological and behavioural domains, cultural variation ...
In 2008, nine-year-old Matthew Berger, son of paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, came across a fossilized clavicle protruding from a rock outside of South Africa's Malapa Cave in the Cradle of Humankind Heritage Site. The chance finding led to the unearthing of a new hominin species, Australopithe...
Of the multitude of mammals around, only a few species satisfy all three menopausal criteria, and hence are the only ones whose females undergo the menopausal process. Many hitherto unanswered questions with respect to menopause, such as, while long and short-finned pilot whales are close to ...
Indeed as a species, humans are highly cooperative and, unlike other species, cooperation is not restricted to relatives (Boyd & Richerson, 2009). Yet, given that not all humans are benevolent all of the time, there is a great need for us to evaluate the behaviour of others in terms of...
Prior to Lucy, the oldest known human fossil—a 2.5-million-year-old skull recovered from a cave in South Africa—was from an ape-like hominin species called Australopithecus africanus. But Johanson’s hominins dated nearly a million years earlier and came from East Africa, a completely differen...
In reality, the fact that there are no other species alive today that look like modern humans is a good indication that the reason we look the way we do is "just a fluke of evolution," he added. "While there are many, many cases of convergent evolution of other adaptations, for some...
It was recently shown that the consequences of this type of malnutrition are affected by the gut microbiome and vice versa [59]. Frozen bacterial species from children with kwashior- kor could be transplanted into GF mice; the combination of the transplanted kwashiorkor species with the Afri- ...