Search results for: hominins

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17 January 2025
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7 August 2024
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10 February 2023

2.9-million-year-old butchery site reopens case of who made first stone tools

Discovery of stone tools and cut-marked animal bones in Kenya offers window into the dawn of stone technology.

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22 October 2022

Central Asia identified as key route for early human migration

Findings indicate the desert zones of Central Asia may have served as key areas for early hominin dispersals into Eurasia.

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23 August 2022
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9 August 2022
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Teeth hold valuable clues for understanding ancient climates and evolutionary processes

Increasing climate variability has been implicated as a driving force for the origins of our species (Homo sapiens) over 300,000 years ago,...

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8 October 2020

Rainforests not humans drove megafauna extinction in Southeast Asia

The takeover of Southeast Asia’s grasslands with today’s rainforests contributed to the extinction of the region’s megafauna and ancient humans.

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1 May 2020

Human evolutionary success due to our ability to adapt to different environments

Griffith researchers contributed to a new isotopic study of fossil teeth that shows the first direct evidence that human success...

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2 April 2020
Brain imprints in fossil skulls of the species Australopithecus afarensis (famous for “Lucy” and the “Dikika child” from Ethiopia pictured here) shed new light on the evolution of brain growth and organisation. The exceptionally preserved endocranial imprint of the Dikika child reveals an ape-like brain organisation, and no features derived towards human

Fossil skull reveals ape-like brain but prolonged growth similar to humans

Three-million-year-old brain imprints in fossil skulls of the species Australopithecus afarensis (famous for “Lucy” and the “Dikika child’’ from Ethiopia) shed new light on the evolution of brain growth.

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11 April 2019
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