Some fossil skulls have an important place in understanding the variation of extinct species. Stw 505 is a large Australopithecus africanus skull, helping to show that big individuals had brains that overlapped in size with the larger-brained Homo.

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Students of evolution quickly pick up the differences between big-toothed Paranthropus boisei and our genus, Homo. Yet there are still anatomical overlaps between these lineages that make some of the fossils from Koobi Fora challenging to interpret.

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Could Australopithecus have been the first hominin genus to migrate out of Africa? We haven't found them in Eurasia yet, but this specimen from Chad suggests that they were widespread far from the East African rift and South African caves.

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호민님(homin_gotv) 자캐 샘플 추가되었습니다.

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Fossils of Australopithecus and Homo were all obligate bipeds, but their pelvic remains do exhibit some differences. Australopithecus sediba blurs the boundary. With its Homo-like pelvis, this species may be a closer human relative.

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Uncovering more evidence that modern humans arose amid great genetic and morphological diversity in Africa, we look at fossils like the Eliye Springs skull with new eyes. Found in reworked deposits, the age of this ancient-looking skull is unknown.

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More and more, we rely on molecular data from DNA and protein to understand ancient populations. Fahu Chen and coworkers identified Denisovan-like protein sequence in the dentin of this mandibular fragment from Xiahe, China.

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Submarimon
(Submarine)
Aquatic
Attacks:
Oxygen Homing
Submarine Attack

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This is my first time tackling the fnf style, AND I ALREADY MASTERED IT! Definitely expect more in the future!

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Many of the most important fossils of human relatives are distorted or fragmented. TM 1517 is the holotype of Paranthropus robustus, found in 1938. Here I've done a reconstruction by mirror-imaging the parts that survived fossilization and erosion.

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doodles from last year! the update stream was super cute

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KNM-ER 1470 is one of the most iconic fossils in human origins. Found in 1972 it remains an outlier: brain size larger than other large-toothed hominins. Today scientists attribute it and a handful of other fossils to Homo rudolfensis.

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The Amud 1 skull was one of the first that I chose when I started drawing fossils more than 25 years ago. Today this ancient individual is more scientifically interesting than ever, at an ancient epicenter of population mixture.

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Il y en a tant d'autres qui m'ont marqué... Dad n'Me, la version Flash d'Alien Hominid, Enough Plumbers, Meat Boy...

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