Sentences with phrase «early homo»

The regions inhabited by Neanderthals overlapped with early Homo sapiens for some period of time, and interbreeding is confirmed: most modern humans have between 1 % and 4 % Neanderthal DNA.

«Phenetic affinities among early Homo crania from East and South Africa.»

«Systematic and functional implications of the facial morphology of Australopithecus and early Homo.»

This fossil is a nearly complete cranium of an early Homo species that is about 1.9 million years old.

This finding significantly changes our understanding of how early Homo Sapiens migrated out of Africa.

Recently identified postcranial remains of Paranthropus and Early Homo from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa.

«At around 300,000 years ago,» he added, «there were probably at least 3 kinds of humans across the African continent — heidelbergensis / rhodesiensis, early Homo sapiens, and naledi — and who knows what else might be out there?»

«KNM - ER 1470, like other early Homo specimens, shows many morphological characteristics in common with gracile australopithecines that are not shared with later specimens of the genus Homo» (Cronin et al. 1981)

A team of international researchers announced finding a complete cranium and associated mandible which casts the contentious discussion of early Homo in a new light.

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.

«This is a strange combination of features that we didn't know before in early Homo,» Ponce de Leon said.

Archaeologists, who studied ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini, discovered how early homo sapiens survived a climate - changing supervolcano eruption This discovery offered clues how humans can survive climate change.

The Dmanisi sample, which now comprises five crania, provides direct evidence for wide morphological variation within and among early Homo paleodemes.

Fossil remains of a late Pleistocene biped with diminutive stature and a brain size found in early Homo or even Australopithecus (and quickly nicknamed «Hobbit») were discovered on the island.

This implies the existence of a single evolving lineage of early Homo, with phylogeographic continuity across continents.

In order to contextualise the australopithecine and early Homo stature estimates and range of variability obtained from the footprints within a broader picture (Figure 12), and to compare them with a larger sample, we extended our analysis to consistent data based on skeletal elements, namely femurs (see Materials and methods for details).

Kate: Yeah, well I mean, they always thought that the two, kind of, went hand in hand because the available fossils of early Homo all had the modified pelvis and a bigger brain.

Here we present a new associated partial ilium and femur from Koobi Fora, Kenya, dating to 1.9 Ma (millions of years ago) that is clearly attributable to the genus Homo but documents a pattern of morphology not seen in eastern African early Homo erectus.

Figure 12 shows the estimated stature of australopithecine and early Homo individuals by species between 4.0 and 1.0 Ma.

Given the scarcity of associated remains of early Homo, however, relatively little is known about early Homo postcranial morphology.

We decided to consider not only australopithecines, but also some early Homo individuals, in order to emphasise that the estimated stature of S1 can be comparable to that of more derived taxa, such as Homo erectus sensu lato.

Early Homo postcanine teeth from Africa and Asia show highly variable average and relative enamel thickness (AET and RET) values.

This new fossil confirms the presence of at least two postcranial morphotypes within early Homo, and documents diversity in postcranial morphology among early Homo species that may reflect underlying body form and / or adaptive differences.

The comparative sample included Middle Stone Age sites from the Horn of Africa; the Levantine Mousterian sites of Tabun Cave, Layer C, and El Wad; the early Homo sapiens site of Skhul in the Levant; Aterian sites in North Africa; the Middle Palaeolithic levels of the Haua Fteah in Libya; and Middle Palaeolithic sites from both above and below the Toba ash in India.

Thus, in an attempt to provide a synthetic picture of stature among australopithecines and early Homo, and to ensure that the results are comparable, we relied on a limited number of different datasets.

In fact, claims that size variation in Australopithecus and / or Paranthropus was larger than that in recent human populations include inferences on sexual dimorphism (Richmond and Jungers, 1995; Plavcan et al., 2005; Lockwood et al., 2007; but see Reno et al., 2003), whereas arguments referring to early Homo are usually associated with eco-physiological variants (Antón et al., 2014; Di Vincenzo et al., 2015).

However, after comparing the new discovery with previously known fossils, he found it «not possible to establish the precise phylogenetic position of A. sediba in relation to the various species assigned to early Homo ``.

Suggesting a human are the modestly sized lower face, a short snout like an early Homo from a couple of million years ago, and petite canines that fit snugly against the incisors, just as they do today.

Early Homo sapiens had brains within the range of people today, averaging 1,200 ml or more.

This elegant study shows that body size did not make a sharp uptick with the arrival of early Homo.

These hominids, whose remains date to between about 100,000 and 60,000 years ago (SN: 4/30/16, p. 7), had chimp - sized brains, short statures and, like H. naledi, some skull features resembling early Homo species.

My prediction is that this is just the first of many preconceptions about early Homo that will be debunked in the next few years.»

The team analyzed the projection of the brow ridge, facial shape, and cranial volume of 13 early Homo sapiens that lived before 80,000 years ago; 41 modern humans that lived 38,000 to 10,000 years ago; and skulls from a global sample of 1367 recent humans.

Some 40 years after the discovery of an unusual early Homo skull, new specimens help decide to whom it belonged

It was provisionally suggested that it belonged to an unusually early Homo sapiens to the east of the Wallace line.

By following a trail of stone tools and fossils, researchers have traced possible routes for the spread of early Homo out of Africa to the far corners of Asia, starting about 2 million years ago.

It's a sample of one, but because this is the first potential evidence of a dominant handed pre-Neanderthal, Frayer said, the study could lead to a search for the marks in other early Homo fossils.

That number increased to about 1 in 5 when early Homo species appeared a million years ago and increased again to nearly 4 in 10 by the age of the Neanderthals, some 130,000 to 30,000 years ago.

Checking the types of animal bones at other early Homo fossil sites out of Africa could show whether the mix of prey species changed when hominins colonized a new site, supporting a «naïve prey» effect.

Yet H. naledi has some primitive features that hark back to early Homo, which lived about 2 million years ago.

«The proposed link between A. sediba and early Homo is forced and tenuous at best,» asserts William L. Jungers of Stony Brook University, noting that alleged skeletal similarities are not very compelling.

As these early Homo species evolved, mothers birthed bigger, more dependent babies that they couldn't raise alone.

«We don't know if early Homo sapiens fossils or the Florisbad individual were genetically related to the Ballito Bay boy,» he says.

Researchers now contend that early Homo species probably collectively raised their offspring within female care networks.

The researchers say his tools meet the criteria for both tool groups made by early Homo — wedges and choppers, and scrapers and drills (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1212855109).

Furthermore, until this year, all fossil hominins older than 1.8 million years (the age of early Homo fossils from Georgia) came from Africa, leading most researchers to conclude that this was where the group evolved.

Although Liebenberg's observations support the runner - as - hunter hypothesis, Bramble and Lieberman think early Homo would more likely have first run to scavenge prey killed by other carnivores — a strategy the Hadza people of East Africa are known to use.

Together with a reassessment of known fossils, published in Nature this week by Spoor and colleagues, the find is stimulating new efforts to sort out the mixed bag of early Homo remains and to and to work out which forms emerged first.

DNA analyses find that early Homo sapiens mated with other human species and hint that such interbreeding played a key role in the triumph of our kind

Researchers agree that small - brained hominins in the genus Australopithecus evolved into early Homo between 3 million and 2.5 million years ago, but the Homo fossil trail disappears at the crucial time.