Neanderthals were brainier than modern humans, and new research helps to explain
how these early hominids evolved so much brain power.
That pattern may help explain
how early hominids, despite their smaller brains, gradually developed complex cultures.
Not exact matches
No one suggests that the
early hominids knew
how to build a hearth or even start a fire.
The site may give us the first glimpse of
how our predecessors lived — it's the only place where
early hominids have surfaced in a group.
Almost a million years older than any
hominid remains found in Europe, they are forcing scholars to rethink not only what constitutes an
early human but
how those
early humans left Africa and peopled the globe.
Having an accurate time scale is a crucial aspect of reconstructing
how anatomical and behavioral characteristics of
early hominids evolved.