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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
Ponce de León, Marcia S, Bienvenu, Thibault, Marom, Assaf, Engel, Silvano, Tafforeau, Paul, Alatorre Warren, José Luis, Lordkipanidze, David, Kurniawan, Iwan, Murti, Delta Bayu, Suriyanto, Rusyad Adi, Koesbardiati, Toetik, Zollikofer, Christoph P E   +11 more
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Spinal cord evolution in early Homo

Journal of Human Evolution, 2015
The discovery at Nariokotome of the Homo erectus skeleton KNM-WT 15000, with a narrow spinal canal, seemed to show that this relatively large-brained hominin retained the primitive spinal cord size of African apes and that brain size expansion preceded postcranial neurological evolution.
Marc R. Meyer, Martin Haeusler
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Making meaning from fragmentary fossils: Early Homo in the Early to early Middle Pleistocene

Journal of Human Evolution, 2023
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Human Evolution, we re-evaluate the fossil record for early Homo (principally Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Homo rudolfensis) from early diversification and dispersal in the Early Pleistocene to the ultimate demise of H. erectus in the early Middle Pleistocene. The mid-1990s marked an important
Susan C, Antón, Emily R, Middleton
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Patterns of resource use in early Homo and Paranthropus

Journal of Human Evolution, 2004
Conventional wisdom concerning the extinction of Paranthropus suggests that these species developed highly derived morphologies as a consequence of specializing on a diet consisting of hard and/or low-quality food items. It goes on to suggest that these species were so specialized or stenotopic that they were unable to adapt to changing environments in
Bernard, Wood, David, Strait
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Early evidence of the genus Homo in East Asia

Journal of Human Evolution, 2008
The timing and route of the earliest dispersal from Africa to Eastern Asia are contentious topics in the study of early human evolution because Asian hominin fossil sites with precise age constraints are very limited. Here we report new high-resolution magnetostratigraphic results that place stringent age controls on excavated hominin incisors and ...
Zhu, R. X., Potts, Richard, Pan, Y. X., Yao, H. T., Lu, L. Q., Zhao, X., Gao, X., Chen, L. W., Gao, F., Deng, C. L.   +9 more
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Early Homo and associated artefacts from Asia

Nature, 1995
The site of Longgupo Cave was discovered in 1984 and excavated in 1985-1988 by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (Beijing) and the Chongqing National Museum (Sichuan Province). Important finds include very archaic hominid dental fragments, Gigantopithecus teeth and primitive stone tools.
W, Huang, R, Ciochon, Y, Gu, R, Larick, F, Qiren, H, Schwarcz, C, Yonge, J, de Vos, W, Rink   +8 more
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Affinities of the Swartkrans early Homo mandibles

HOMO, 2008
The southern African early Homo assemblage continues to make important contributions to understanding the systematics, adaptations and evolutionary history of the human genus. However, the taxonomy of this sample is in a state of flux. This study examines the size and shape of the mandibular bodies of Swartkrans SK 15 and SK 45 comparing them with ...
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Dental microwear and diets of African early Homo

Journal of Human Evolution, 2006
Conventional wisdom ties the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo to environmental changes that occurred near the end of the Pliocene. The basic idea is that changing habitats led to new diets emphasizing savanna resources, such as herd mammals or underground storage organs. Fossil teeth provide the most direct evidence available for evaluating
Peter S, Ungar, Frederick E, Grine, Mark F, Teaford, Sireen, El Zaatari   +3 more
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Early Homo Sapiens

2017
This chapter describes Early Homo sapiens who lived about 100,000 years ago. Behaviorally, they were the first hominins to decorate themselves and wear fitted clothing. They also migrated across the world, including reaching Australia over water. Cognitively it appears that they had developed a second order theory of mind that we call introspection.
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EarlyHomo

Current Anthropology, 2012
The origin of Homo is argued to entail niche differentiation resulting from increasing terrestriality and dietary breadth relative to the better known species of Australopithecus (A. afarensis, A. anamensis, A. africanus). I review the fossil evidence from ~2.5 to 1.5 Ma in light of new finds and analyses that challenge previous inferences.
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