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Middle Pleistocene hominins. Elandsfontein skull from South Africa (~400 ka), Kabwe 1 skull from Zambia (~250 ka); Elandsfontein mandibular fragment superimposed to the Mauer mandible (~600 ka).
Source: https://t.co/UbZTKE8eYn Photo: Roberto Sáez.

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2019-12-20

Consumption of animals helped hominins to grow bigger brains, but is it still so important? https://t.co/HLh27yw69u via

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2019-12-08

Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems. Eastern African communities of large-bodied mammalian herbivores are ecosystem engineers and shape biotic communities that differed markedly from those today until ∼700,000 y ago. https://t.co/4eLu4XU1CC

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2019-10-27

The (‘Old Stone Age’) makes up the earliest chunk of the Stone Age – the large swathe of time during which hominins used stone to make tools. https://t.co/804sW1jnsf

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2019-10-21

Adaptive Genetic Variants from Archaic Hominins Found in Melanesians https://t.co/nFZP9rQgbS

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2019-10-20

Results from the More humans. Sahelanthropus, a Denisovan, Australopithecus sebida and a gay H. erectus couple.

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2019-09-15

Consumption of animals helped hominins to grow bigger brains, but is it still so important? https://t.co/HLh27yw69u via

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2019-09-07

Brain ontogeny and life history in Pleistocene hominins https://t.co/VGC6IGjRGA via

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2016-05-17

New hominins for just published. Denisovans lived at least 60 ka in the site.
https://t.co/ijIUUYdL4W

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2015-11-17