The vertebrate and invertebrate remains were further sorted in the UGM lab by broad taxonomic group for further designation into the lowest taxonomic level possible whether that be order, family, genus or species. Identification and quantification methods followed1. In most cases identification could on...
Sahelanthropus tchadensisfrom the site of Toros-Menalla, Chad (Figure 1), discovered by the Mission Paléoanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne (Brunetet al. 2002), may be the oldest hominin recovered thus far. However, the age ofSahelanthropuswas first determinedbiochronologically(Vignaudet a...
Here we report on A.anamensis fossils from the Assa Issie locality in Ethiopia's Middle Awash area dated to 4.2Ma, constituting the oldest known Australopithecus axial remains. Because the spine is the interface between major body segments, these fossils can be informative on the adaptation, ...
It clearly points to the gradual evolution of multiple neural and cognitive properties in the hominin lineage, which support a range of cognitive computations, including language processing. First, it is important to consider what eventually evolved although the properties of ml-CC are controversially ...
Any of various primates of the family Hominidae, which includes orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and modern humans, and their extinct relatives. The family formerly included onlyHomo sapiens,extinct species ofHomo,and the extinct genusAustralopithecus. ...
The oldest fossil malaria mosquito species, Anopheles rottensis, was found in the Upper Oligocene (Chattian) lacustrine strata of the Rott Formation of Germany (Harbach, 2013; Statz, 1944). However, the genus may have been established earlier, presumably sometime in the Upper Eocene epoch. ...
The oldest known anatomically modern humans in Europe A couple of days ago, on December 1st, was the National Day of Romania, a small country in the South-East of Europe. In its honor, I dug out a paper that shows that some of the earliest known modern humans in Europe were also… ...
Review human ancestors and the Homo genus to understand early hominids, bipedalism, the emergence of Homo erectus, and how agriculture affected the development of Homo sapiens. Development of Homo Sapiens 'Where did we come from?' is one of the oldest questions mankind has ever asked. For ...
(CNRS), and its Chadian partners analyzed three limb bones fromSahelanthropus tchadensis, the earliest known representative of the human genus. The study, which was recently published in the journalNature, supports the hypothesis that bipedalism was developed extremely early in human history, at a...
The origin of crown group marsupials is thereby constrained by the age of the oldest fossils attributed to Marsupialia: the oldest known species of Peradectes (for example, P. minor) are from the early Palaeocene (middle Puercan, ca. 65.1 Myr ago)32, whereas the oldest known species of ...