During the first half of the twentieth century, theories on human evolution were dominated by the view that humans split very early from the common stock of apes, and largely preserved generalized (plesiomorphic) hand proportions similar to other anthropoid primates6–8. To the contrary, extant ...
As we have seen, the first hominins were like their African ape cousins in many respects, with the major exception of being upright on the ground. If a surviving relict population of very early hominins were to be discovered, we’d be more likely to send them to zoos than boarding ...
First, the locality was surveyed for exposed outcrops and previously described sections were investigated15. Two main fossil clusters were found, one at the KNM-ER 2598 locality (Cluster-1; Fig. 3) and at a second location nearby (Cluster-2). Volcanic ash demarcates the boundary between the...
Right now, anthropologists still have little idea what this landscape teeming with ancient hominins would have looked like. But perhaps 50 years from now, we'll have a better picture of how Lucy's kind interacted with these other ancient hominins. Even then, Lucy will likel...
The exact date fire was discovered has long remained a mystery, with some studies suggesting it was first used by hominins in Kenya 1 million years ago to cook meat. Other evidence suggests that Neanderthals in Europe and Asia harnessed fire, while Homo sapiens evolving in Africa mastered the ...
Space-time breakthroughs. Virgin births. A promising candidate for alien life. Science didn’t disappoint during our latest revolution around the sun.
For the single-grain distributions, we first removed the ‘modern’ grains before applying the CAM. The smaller-than-average De values, other than those that are ‘modern’, were not removed; their inclusion would lead to a larger uncertainty on the CAM De value, but they do not appear ...
For instance, when humans were the domesticators, they often selected in favor of lower flight response (docility), which introduced several other phenotypic traits coincidentally, such as facial architecture or reduction in dentition size [29]. 2. Auto-Domestication of Hominins The physiological ...
These food sources were more transient and scattered than the predominantly vegetarian sources exploited by the other primates. I have previously argued that this led the hominins to evolve more advanced prospective planning, that is, to plan for future needs, and to cooperate about such plans (...
Predatory CarnivoraThe adjustedδ13C values ofPanthera tigris(median: − 10.2‰, range: − 11.7‰ and − 4.7‰, n = 3) suggest that tigers were probably preying essentially onS.scrofaor might have been consumers of a wide range of prey species in both open and close...