Sentences with phrase «early hominin evolution»

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Or, as cognitive scientist Stephanie Braccini and colleagues put it in a Journal of Human Evolution study, «a strengthening of individual asymmetry [may have] started as soon as early hominins assumed a habitual upright posture during tool use or foraging».

They also suggest that sexual dimorphism — the physical distinction between genders, with females typically smaller in mammals — was more prevalent in early hominin species but then steadily ironed out by evolution.

The earliest stages of hominin evolution are still mysterious.

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

A new analysis of early hominin body size evolution led by a George Washington University professor suggests that the earliest members of the Homo genus (which includes our species, Homo sapiens) may not have been larger than earlier hominin species.

Researchers are examining the emergence of material culture here, and its indications for the cognitive evolution of Early Stone Age hominins are intriguing.

Diet is key to understanding the ecology and evolution of our distant ancestors and their kin, the early hominins.

A year and a half after adding a puzzling new member to the human family tree, a team of researchers working in South Africa... claim that East Africa incubated humankind's early evolution, a narrative that rests on rich hominin fossil...