How many species of hominids were there? What did early Homo sapiens look like? What does the word 'Homo sapiens' mean? How did Homo erectus differ from modern Homo sapiens? Did Homo erectus evolve into Homo sapiens? How many species of hominin coexisted 100,000 years ago? How old is H...
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...
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...
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...
The word "hominin" refers to modern humans and all of their closely related common ancestors since 6 mya. Common ancestors to humans before 6 mya are called "hominids." So what are the characteristics ofHomo erectusthat helped them qualify as a grade change?
This technology has opened up thefossil record, allowing palaeontologists to image and analyse the deep structure of fossils. This has enabled spectacular discoveries such as theearliest hominin cancerand theearliest tumour, theflight pattern of Archaeoptryx, or torebuild an early bird trapped in ...
Mendeleev was only 35 years old when he made the greatest discovery of his life. He had suspected a relationship between the elements since he was a student, and over the years, this idea became an obsession.“...The anticipation of the imminent resolution of a question that tormented me ...
This may make males more hesitant to use arboreal spaces that do not offer a sturdy support system, such as the small loblolly pine trees that are the predominant species in the habitat at Chimp Haven. Loblolly pine trees have also naturally evolved to drop their lower limbs as they age, ...
AS THE old joke goes, when I read about the dangers of smoking, I gave up reading. If you are a vaper, you might feel like you want to stop reading now. Don’t: you need to know this. I am a vaper. Like many others, I used to smoke and switched to vaping for health...
Iridescence is responsible for some of the most striking visual displays in the animal kingdom. Now, thanks to a new study of feathers from almost 100 modern bird species, scientists have gained new insights into how this colour diversity evolved.