Sentences with phrase «on early hominin»
«This new species from Ethiopia takes the ongoing debate on early hominin diversity to another level,» Haile - Selassie said in the statement.
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A new, slightly morbid study based on the calorie counts of average humans suggests that human - eating was mostly ritualistic, not dietary, in nature among hominins including Homo erectus, H. antecessor, Neandertals, and early modern humans.
Identification of in vivo sulci on the external surface of eight adult chimpanzee brains: implications for interpreting early hominin endocasts.
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.
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.»
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.
The body dimensions used in the model — 30 kg for females, 55 kg for males — were based on a group of early human ancestors, or hominins, such as Australopithicus afarensis, the species that includes the famous Ethiopian fossil «Lucy.»
Australopithecus bahrelghazali was perhaps the most enigmatic of early hominins, feeding only on sedges rather than a broad diet like its nearest relatives
Previous research suggests our ability to cooperate and exhibit empathy — both thought to be critical to human success — relied in part on the large brains of our hominin ancestors, relative to body size; and that selection against aggression within early human populations allowed us to thrive.
However, to date, the majority of published data on molar enamel thickness of Pliocene and early Pleistocene hominins derive from naturally fractured random surfaces of a small number of specimens.
Whether H. floresiensis is correctly attributed to the genus Homo; if actually a member of an earlier member of the hominin lineage, such as H. erectus; could Hobbit belong to A. afarensis and if so how did Honnit's ancestors get to Indonesia; these are all questions difficult to answer on the evidence currently available.
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...