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Feb 2, 2021 · The remains of five individuals at Jebel Irhoud exhibit traits of a face that looks compellingly modern, mixed with other traits like an elongated brain case reminiscent of more archaic humans.
- Brian Handwerk
How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution.
Sep 12, 2024 · Insofar as habitats have been (or can be) discerned from evidence found with the Pliocene hominin species, hominins inhabited a variety of biomes in eastern, central, and southern Africa. In central Ethiopia, Ar. ramidus is associated with faunal and floral remains indicating a woodland habitat.
Sep 12, 2024 · human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture -bearing upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago.
Feb 25, 2010 · Some researchers originally thought the hominid, found on the island of Flores in Indonesia, was a dwarfed H. erectus. Others now think it is a different species that left Africa before H....
Apr 15, 2019 · By examining key features of the facial skeleton, here we evaluate the evolutionary history of the modern human face in the context of its development, morphology and function, and suggest that...
Humans are big headed - our brains are around three times larger than would be expected for an animal of our size. The brains of our early hominin relatives (species more closely related to us than to chimpanzees) were not especially large.
