Dental morphology in Homo habilis and its implications for the evolution of early Homo [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe phylogenetic position of Homo habilis is central to debates over the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo. A large portion of the species hypodigm consists of dental remains, but they have only been studied at the often worn enamel surface ...
Thomas W. Davies +10 more
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Characterizing the evolutionary path(s) to early Homo. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Numerous studies suggest that the transition from Australopithecus to Homo was characterized by evolutionary innovation, resulting in the emergence and coexistence of a diversity of forms.
Lauren Schroeder +3 more
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Insights into the palaeobiology of an early Homo infant: multidisciplinary investigation of the GAR IVE hemi-mandible, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Childhood is an ontogenetic stage unique to the modern human life history pattern. It enables the still dependent infants to achieve an extended rapid brain growth, slow somatic maturation, while benefitting from provisioning, transitional feeding, and ...
Adeline Le Cabec +10 more
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Measures of maturation in early fossil hominins: events at the first transition from australopiths to early Homo. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2016 An important question in palaeoanthropology is whether, among the australopiths and the first fossil hominins attributed to early Homo, there was a shift towards a more prolonged period of growth that can be distinguished from that of the living great ...
Dean MC.
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Computer vision supports primary access to meat by early Homo 1.84 million years ago. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Human carnivory is atypical among primates. Unlike chimpanzees and bonobos, who are known to hunt smaller monkeys and eat them immediately, human foragers often cooperate to kill large animals and transport them to a safe location to be shared.
Cobo-Sánchez L +8 more
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Endocranial ontogeny and evolution in early <i>Homo sapiens</i>: The evidence from Herto, Ethiopia. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Significance Fossils of early Homo sapiens from Herto, Ethiopia, show that populations living in Africa 160,000 years ago had already evolved brains broadly equivalent in size to those of humans living today.
Zollikofer CPE +6 more
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Broca’s area, variation and taxic diversity in early Homo from Koobi Fora (Kenya) [PDF]
eLife, 2023 Because brain tissues rarely fossilize, pinpointing when and how modern human cerebral traits emerged in the hominin lineage is particularly challenging.
Amélie Beaudet, Edwin de Jager
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Dental evidence for extended growth in early Homo from Dmanisi. [PDF]
NatureHuman life history is characterized by an extended period of immaturity during which there is a disjunction between cerebral and somatic growth rates1.
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The primitive brain of early Homo
Science, 2021 Brain evolution in early Homo Human brains are larger than and structurally different from the brains of the great apes. Ponce de León et al. explored the timing of the origins of the structurally modern human brain (see the Perspective by Beaudet).
Marcia S. Ponce de León +11 more
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The bears from Dmanisi and the first dispersal of early Homo out of Africa. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 We report on the taxonomy and paleodiet of the bear population that inhabited the emblematic palaeoanthropological Early Pleistocene (1.8 Ma) site of Dmanisi (Georgia), based on a dual approach combining morphometrics and microwear of upper and lower ...
Medin T +8 more
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