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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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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Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo
Nature CommunicationsThe adult craniofacial diversity of early Pleistocene Homo species is relatively well-documented, but its developmental foundations is hindered by the scarcity of infant specimens with preserved skeletal features.
José Braga, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi
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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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The primitive brain of early Homo [PDF]
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
Ponce de León, Marcia S +11 more
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Homo heterogenus : Variability in early Pleistocene Homo environments
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2023 Peer ...
Žliobaitė Indrė +4 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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Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa [PDF]
eLife, 2015 Homo naledi is a previously-unknown species of extinct hominin discovered within the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
Lee R Berger +46 more
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New reconstruction of DAN5 cranium (Gona, Ethiopia) supports complex emergence of Homo erectus [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe African Early Pleistocene is a time of evolutionary change and techno-behavioral innovation in human prehistory that sees the advent of our own genus, Homo, from earlier australopithecine ancestors by 2.8-2.3 million years ago.
Karen L. Baab +4 more
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