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Mike Morwood: There are no comparable early hominin discoveries in southeast Asia since Eugene DuBois» finding of the type H. erectus specimens at Trinil, East Java, in the 1890s.

The researchers scanned a jawbone found in Greece and an upper premolar from Bulgaria, and found the roots of the teeth to be largely fused together, indicating that the species might have been an early hominin.

«This new species from Ethiopia takes the ongoing debate on early hominin diversity to another level,» Haile - Selassie said in the statement.

The Lomekwi area where the tools were found had already produced the fossil skull of early hominin Kenyanthropus platyops by Meave and her team, and the West Turkana Archaeological Project has previously discovered the earliest artifacts from the Oldowan culture known from Kenya, and the world's oldest Acheulean handaxes.

An international team of researchers led by Université de Montréal's Dr. Luc Doyon has found seven bone soft hammers at the early hominin Lingjing...

The reviewers agree that this paper provides both the description of a major discovery of new footprints of early bipedal hominins from Laetoli, Tanzania at 3.6 MYA and a valuable analytical result concerning early hominin body size variation.

Early hominin stature reconstructions are notoriously difficult to assess: the limited number of intact long bones available in the fossil record often requires reconstruction of the long bone length from fragmentary remains, before different methods can be used to estimate the stature; the eventual results can differ according to the method employed.

Produced using cutting - edge methodology and the largest sample of individual early hominin fossils available, analysis of their results shows that early hominins were generally smaller than previously thought and that the increase in body size occurred not between australopiths and the origins of Homo but later with H. erectus (the first species widely found outside of Africa).

These early hominin tools are found in abundance here at the Kalahari Desert's edge.

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.

The area also hosts a remarkable collection of early hominin artifact sites, which are in danger of being damaged or destroyed by the extraction industry's boom and attendant economic activity.

One idea is that it evolved from a small early hominin species like H. habilis or the even more primitive Australopithecus, so far known only from fossils in Africa.

Entombed for millions of years deep within South Africa's Sterkfontein Cave, one of the most complete early hominin fossils ever discovered is reshuffling our family tree.

Our research suggests that the flake is the earliest securely - dated artefact from Turkey ever recorded and was dropped on the floodplain by an early hominin well over a million years ago.»

The skeleton, along with others of the species found so far only at Malapa, are responsible for setting off a new golden age of early hominin fossil discovery in South Africa.

Wonderwerk is one of the earliest sites of evidence for early hominin use of fire — dating back at least around 1 to 1.1 - million years ago.

Lukas Friedl, a Czech researcher visiting Wits University to study its early hominin fossil collection, looks out from one of the many entrances of Sterkfontein Cave, the quintessential complex cave system in The Cradle of Humankind.

The gender is also unknown, but the skull's massive browridges suggest the early hominin may have been male.

«The site at Lomekwi provides an ideal window into early hominin behavior across an ancient landscape.

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.

She has picked through calculus from the early hominin Australopithecus sediba, dating back 2 million years.

The early hominin Ardipithecus is a good example — the second milk molar has never been found, but we can now predict how big it was.»

Identification of in vivo sulci on the external surface of eight adult chimpanzee brains: implications for interpreting early hominin endocasts.

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».

We know roughly when that change occurred from experiments in which researchers made their own versions of ancient stone tools using either their left or right hands to chip — or knap — the tool into shape, before comparing them with the tools made by early hominins.

«The study published in the journal, PLOS ONE, also suggests that these early hominins may have sought additional nourishment from fruits and invertebrates, like worms and grasshoppers.»

Evidence that some chimps routinely eschew the safety of treetops to sleep on the ground raises the possibility that some early hominins did too — with possible implications for their cognitive development.

Some prominent researchers savaged the idea that early hominins could have lived outside Africa.

Carol Ward at the University of Missouri in Columbia points out that there are too many differences between chimps and early hominins to draw firm conclusions about early human behaviour from chimp studies.

The savannahs early hominins occupied might have appeared thanks to a spate of wildfires 8 million years ago — which might in turn be linked to a nearby supernova

The really interesting scientific question is, «What pushed early hominins to make stone tools at that place and at that point in time?

Professional anatomists analyzed 3D scans of the bone and concluded that it was a match for our own species, rather than another early hominins such as Neandertals or a member of Australopithecus.

Why did Neandertals differentiate so quickly from other early hominins?

Wrangham aimed to fill a gap in the story of how early hominins like Australopithecus — essentially, apes that walked upright — evolved into modern Homo sapiens.

Collins says he's also excited about other teams producing paleoproteomic studies on cave art: The research can help us understand how early hominins created paints by adding binding agents to ochre and other material, which hints at their cognitive process.

It is thus not difficult to see how early hominins could have ranged across south - east Europe and well as Africa, and left their footprints on a Mediterranean shore that would one day form part of the island of Crete.

It is estimated that H. ergaster stood at 1.9 m (6ft3) tall with relatively less sexual dimorphism in comparison to earlier hominins.

Not long ago, they discovered ancient footprints of lions, rhinos and antelopes near those of the early hominins.

The earliest hominins hunted and therefore engaged in simple, or systematic, tracking, says Louis Liebenberg, the South African author of The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science.

The high concentration of these artefacts suggests significant activity at the sites and that they were regularly used by early hominins.

The most important sites, dating between 500,000 to 100,000 years ago were based at the lower end of river valleys, providing ideal bases for early hominins — early humans who lived before Homo sapiens (us).

No earlier hominin had ever created such a specialized technology for systematic fishing.

There is also a set of 5.7 - million - year - old footprints from a Greek island near Crete that were apparently made by a hominin, suggesting that at least some early hominins made it out of Africa.

The teeth, buried at the fossil site that houses the earliest hominin remains outside Africa (above), came from extinct horses, rhinos, and deer.

Once early hominins had boosted their metabolism and grown bigger brains, he says, natural selection would have favored not only fatter individuals, but also smaller guts and other energy - saving adaptations, such as cooking and efficient walking.

The proof for this comes from fossil evidence, which shows that the neocortex expanded and reorganized over time in early hominins.

«The most important thing is that the diet of A. sediba was different from the diet of other early hominins.»

Early hominins weren't picky about their sexual partners.

Australopithecus bahrelghazali was perhaps the most enigmatic of early hominins, feeding only on sedges rather than a broad diet like its nearest relatives

Until Little Foot was found, the earliest hominin species known in South Africa was Australopithecus africanus, which is generally believed to have lived between 2 million and 3 million years ago.