A: To be honest, we simply don't know until we can gather more evidence ... as Neolithic tools of Homo sapiens sapiens, or more like those of Homo erectus? It might seem surprising that Homo ...
Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship
Hybridization occurs most frequently in areas where human predation has created a shortage of available dingo mates, meaning humans can help reverse ... shows Homo erectus pekinensis, the elusive ...
Evolution of the Human Brain
The first clear increase in hominid brain size is seen in early Homo at c.2 m.y.a. in East Africa (most reliably ... From the appearance of H. erectus at c.1.7 m.y.a. to the present, the brain ...
The Conscious Mind
Bathe the neuron in various transmitters, and you can alter the strength and timing of its electrical ... of events typically focuses on the examination of systems of animal communication as ...
What was the first language?
But if you go back a million years to Homo erectus, an earlier species of archaic ... Mutations in this gene could help explain why humans can talk but chimps cannot. We know it has a crucial ...
Reconstructing Hominin Life History
and Homo erectus (180, 225, and 270 cc, respectively). Proportional EVs derived from these values suggest that modeling early hominin brain development patterns after that of either living humans ...
Here's how men's fairness creams are walking a fairer path
However, men's fairness cream brands' communication need not follow the same path. It can shorten the evolutionary curve right now." And go straight from homo erectus to sapiens perhaps.
Getting high in the hills: A history
Human beings have been changing their consciousness since Homo erectus,” said Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis ... their memories just get a little hazy), can tell plenty of stories to those who ask, ...
A Primer on Paleolithic Technology
What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits ... and — widely-accepted — the emergence and early evolutionary success of the genus Homo. An increasingly carnivorous diet also led to the ...
The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania
Hominins are all those species (Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus boisei, Homo erectus, etc.) that share with us a common ... One constraint is, of course, the particular diet an animal can ...
Director’s Statement: Dr. Niobe Thompson
There were Hobbits, Neanderthals, a newly discovered creature called a Denisovan, and an entire cast of Homo erectus characters ... I set out to discover what we can know about the ancient world ...
From monkey to man
they capped the excavation with transparent glass so that visitors can walk on top of the burial site and see the remains of its occupant. A drawing of how this specimen of Homo sapiens may have been ...
