which provided a temperature record for Europe from 800,000 to 1.8 million years ago. Using these data, the authors created a climate envelope model and evaluated the geographic range of homininspeciesusing cli
“For the archeological and anthropological sites and corresponding ages, we extracted the local biome types from our climate-driven vegetation model. This revealed which biomes were favored by the extinct hominin speciesH. ergaster, H. habilis, H. erectus, H. heidelbergensis,andH. neanderthalensisan...
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...
How did Homo sapiens interact with other hominin species? How did Homo sapiens become the only hominid species? How did Homo sapiens beat out the Neanderthals? What survival advantage did Homo sapiens have over Neanderthals? What did Homo erectus evolve from? What distinguishes Homo floresiensis fr...
Just Homo sapiens or the species that proceeded us genetically? Signed, Aisling, who keeps an image of Lucy on their ancestor shrine. I am totally with you on that! I take a broad definition of human, which is why I included a hominin example above.One of my most profound moments of ...
How are endangered species being kept from extinction? How did Homo sapiens become the only hominid species? Did Homo naledi bury their dead? When did Homo naledi live? How did the dinosaurs become extinct? What hominin species have similar dentition to Homo naledi? When did Homo sapiens idalt...
In contrast, the biological evolution of certain speech and language capacities may be associated with particular hominin species. In considering the above-mentioned species model, we predict that at least one biologically constrained premodern language stage in early Homo erectus s.l. Let us ...
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...
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...
nature and origin of mankind. Various changes have occurred in the process of describing mankind. Homo naledi is a species of humankind that was initially discovered in South Africa under a cave. The fossils of the species were found under a cave, a concept that describes the species' culture...