Sentences with phrase «erectus individuals»

In a commentary article published alongside the new papers, Aida Gomez - Robles at George Washington University makes a new suggestion that might explain this: perhaps the few H. erectus individuals that reached Flores just happened to have unusually primitive looking skeletons.

Continued work in this region by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and an international team of collaborators, has revealed a hominin trace fossil discovery of unprecedented scale for this time period — five distinct sites that preserve a total of 97 tracks created by at least 20 different presumed Homo erectus individuals.

Not exact matches

Based on experimentally derived estimates of body mass from the Ileret hominin tracks, the researchers have also inferred the sexes of the multiple individuals who walked across footprint surfaces and, for the two most expansive excavated surfaces, developed hypotheses regarding the structure of these H. erectus groups.

«Recognising that Homo erectus may be more a historical accident than a biological reality might lead to a better understanding of those fossils whose morphology clearly exceeds the bounds of individual variation,» says Jeffrey Schwartz of Pittsburgh University.

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).

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.

We learn in the February 27 issue of Science that a team working at Illeret, near Lake Turkana in Kenya, or many years the site of fossil finds, has uncovered two trails with footprints estimated to be 1.5 million years old and likely made by individuals assigned to Homo ergaster / erectus.

Lubenow lists 16 erectus characteristics, and almost all, including brain size, are found in the above individuals.