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What do we know about the earliest hominins to exist?
A story spanning one million years and counting, we're discovering more about how we came to be human.
The Origins of Homo Sapiens with @ChrisStringer65
The Ancients https://t.co/sTeOXVPNIP via @acast
Evidence of the use of baby carriers 10,000 years ago
Perforated shell beads found in the burial of a 40- to 50-days-old female baby, nicknamed Neve
The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial
https://t.co/Y2FosKg9kT
Study of human evolution historically reassured us of a comforting order. It has painted humans as as cleverer, more intellectual and caring than our ancestors.
Six recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins
https://t.co/Q6i4n87FaK
Wait... what? Wow.
Neurons in human skin affect pigmentation...
Pigmentation of skin might be regulated by previously overlooked cells or structures in the skin
Human sensory neurons modulate melanocytes through secretion of RGMB
https://t.co/jnyGigX06W
The developmental impacts of natural selection on human pelvic morphology
https://t.co/ewz8X2KtAA
Evolutionary responses to selection for bipedalism and childbirth have shaped the human pelvis, a structure that differs substantially from that in apes.
Ancient Skull Research Provides New Information on Human-Neanderthal Cross-Breeding
The Near East was a cross roads for admixture
Midfacial Morphology and Neandertal–Modern Human Interbreeding
https://t.co/zC1Ok0veAs
Extinct mammal group, multituberculates, challenge assumptions about the evolution of mammal and marsupial reproduction
Multituberculate Mammals Show Evidence of a Life History Strategy Similar to That of Placentals, Not Marsupials
https://t.co/No2FZEjfA0
Endocranial ontogeny and evolution in early Homo sapiens: The evidence from Herto, Ethiopia
https://t.co/ZqzeuFfxvz
Fossils show populations living in Africa 160 kya already evolved brains equivalent in size of today, but braincases were shaped differently
One of The First Animals to Venture Onto Land Went Straight Back Into The Water
~ 365 mya, one group of fishes left the water to live on land, and then returned.
A new elpistostegalian from the Late Devonian of the Canadian Arctic
https://t.co/asASWlCLuY
New study may have solved long-standing mystery of what may have triggered ice age. May also help explain the Younger Dryas cold reversal.
The importance of Canadian Arctic Archipelago gateways for glacial expansion in Scandinavia
https://t.co/aFM0fdS2S3