African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Human evolution Africa
Squamate reptiles from Kanapoi: Faunal evidence for hominin paleoenvironments
JJ Head, J Müller – Journal of Human Evolution, 2018 Available online 14 June 2018 …
The fossil record of Kanapoi suggests that assembly of squamate faunas of modern East Africa was well underway by the late Neogene. Keywords …
Body mass estimates of the earliest possible hominins and implications for the last common ancestor
M Grabowski, KG Hatala, WL Jungers – Journal of Human Evolution, 2018
… is related to both ecological and life-history characteristics, understanding its evolution in early … Elliott et al., 2016) in predicting body masses in a modern human reference set of … National Museum of Natural History (NMNH); Royal …
Human evolution Africa
Ancient teeth, phenetic affinities, and African hominins: Another look at where Homo naledi fits in.
JD Irish, SE Bailey, D Guatelli-Steinberg, LK Delezene… – Journal of human evolution, 2018
… Studies Institute and Centre for Excellence in PaleoSciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa. Close affiliations. Find all citations in this journal (default). Or filter your current …
Abrupt or gradual? Change point analysis of the late Pleistocene–Holocene climate record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia
MH Trauth, V Foerster, A Junginger, A Asrat, HF Lamb… – Quaternary Research, 2018
… important implications for human adaptation and survival (Ambrose et al., 1998; Hildebrand et al., 2010; Foerster et al., 2015) and for human dispersal, both within Africa and beyond … We then discuss the possible impact of such transitions on human cultural evolution …