The identification of such a trait in ancient hominins, such as the Neanderthals, and great apes raises the question of the derived or plesiomorphic condition of the orientation of the acetabulum in RH. In any case, we consider that the more lateral orientation of the acetabulum in Neanderthal ...
The capacity for organisms to affect the environment is driven by their functional trait combinations28(Fig.1). As such, the availability and accuracy of herbivore functional trait data is critical for understanding the patterns and ecological consequences of the late Quaternary extinctions, the implica...
Dubbed Homo luzonensis, the species is one of the most important finds that will be out in the coming years, one scientist predicts.
of human evolution. their proposals are also richly ironic. a defining characteristic of our species is our mania for expansion. other hominins didn’t share it, so far as we know; our neanderthal cousins, with whom we lived for 5,000 years, never left eurasia. with us, ex...
IntroductionCarabelli trait is an accessory dental feature that forms along the lingual margin of theprotocone of deciduous and permanent max- illary molars [1-2] (Fig. 1). It is variably ex- pressed, ranging from a small pit or furrow to a large cusp, and its development, at least in...
Chris Buskus says:"More than two million years ago, from the moment our distant ancestors, the hominins, began to make stone axes and other tools while experimenting with communal hunting techniques, the process of natural selection targeted new qualities such as inventive talent, sociability, soci...
is true even in our own evolutionary group. Out of a minimum of 18 different species of evolutionary ancestors and cousins, only one lineage—our species—has survived. All the other ways of life of earlier hominins have gone extinct, even though each species possessed at least some ...
hominins did not (Shipton et al.2021c). Ethnographic comparisons from diverse groups living around the Indian Ocean rim are used to suggest an array of functions for these stone tools. One such function is in body ornamentation, which is also attested in other forms of Late Pleistocene ...
Such patterns of geographic trait distribution cannot be simply explained by clinal geographic variation of Homo erectus between northern China and Java, and suggests survival of multiple evolutionary lineages among archaic hominins before the arrival of modern humans in the region. 1 Department of ...
As noted by Darwin1, bipedalism with an upright posture is probably the main defining trait of the earliest hominins. This locomotor behaviour greatly contrasts with those observed in other African apes, which mainly exhibit diversified quadrupedal locomotor behaviours2. Using the extant great apes ...