If the claims are true, the behavior by Homo naledi—a baffling, small-brained member of the human family tree—would pre-date the earliest known burials by at least 100,000 years.
The effects of the MIS 12 glaciation in the Megalopolis area therefore appear relatively mild, maintaining conditions that allowed the persistence of a diverse temperate fauna and flora, including elephants, monkeys, hippopotami and deer, some of them exploited by Middle Pleistocene hominins10,14. Ad...
W. Three-Dimensional Riddles of the Radial Wrist: Derived Carpal and Carpometacarpal Joint Morphology in the Genus Homo and the Implications for Understanding the Evolution of Stone Tool-Related Behaviours in Hominins. PhD thesis, (Arizona State Univ. (2007) . Ward, C. V., Tocheri, M. W....
This apparent human/mouse difference is consistent with an evolutionary change to the trunk broadening of hominins (Figure 5) (hominins include living humans and fossil species that are ancestral to living humans, see Evolutionary Origins). Skeletal asymmetries Mean upper arm length asymmetries in ...
Figure 2. Occipital views of typical cranial venous sinus systems in modern humans (left) and fossil robust australopithecines (Paranthropus) and earlier hominins from Hadar, Ethiopia (right). In humans, venous blood exits the skull through the transverse (T)–sigmoid (S) sinuses, which deli...
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 ...
Dubbed Homo luzonensis, the species is one of the most important finds that will be out in the coming years, one scientist predicts.
In the Pleistocene of Afro-Eurasia, several species of hyena, especially the giant bone-crackingPachycrocuta brevirostris, were probably well suited to take advantage of this resource85,86,87. Stone-tool-wielding hominins too may have benefited under these circumstances, especially if, as some hyp...
Relevant variables would also include the size of the prey; the distance from the animal’s outer hide and hair to its vulnerable internal vital organs; and the means by which the weapon was delivered, whether thrust by hand, thrown by hand, or thrown with the aid of an atlatl (Churchill...
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...