In hominins, habitual bipedal posture brings the ... 521-547. White, T. D. Early hominin femora: The inside story. Comptes Rendus Palevol 5, 99-108 (2006).
The first discovery of tracks of early hominins in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region happened by chance in 1978. A team led by one of us (Behrensmeyer) and paleoecologist Léo Laporte was exploring ...
Hominins at the site exhibited meticulous planning and efficiency in their manufacturing and resource management strategies.
Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to ...
If there was any lingering question about the early manifestation of bipedality in human evolutionary history, it has been erased by recent fossil discoveries: a 4.4-million-year-old hominid from ...
Footprints from Kenya's Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ...
So what does the science say? In particular, what does the genetic evidence, which didn't exist back when many early hominins were first discovered, show? "Horses and donkeys can breed ...
What really sets the Juluren apart is their brain size, which surpasses that of other known hominins of the era, including early Homo sapiens. This characteristic, along with their diverse ...
Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 46, 126-170 (2003). Bellomo, R. V. Methods of determining early hominid behavioral activities associated with the controlled use of fire at FxJj 20 Main ...
Adapted to two-footed walking, early hominins dropped out of the trees and started to carry food and tools in their hands. These new species were poised to alter the planet unlike any other in the ...