African Skull Points to One Human Ancestor | Science | AAAS
Almost 1.8 million years ago, a new kind of human appeared in Africa and Eurasia. It stood tall and had a relatively large brain and slender hips. These early humans used stone tools adeptly, scavenged meat on the open savanna, and colonized more than one continent.
Skulls Add to "Out of Africa" Theory of Human Origins
2007年7月18日 · The shapes of skulls from around the world may have opened a new window onto the exodus of the first humans from Africa. According to a new report, groups of skulls from local populations are...
Australopithecus africanus | The Smithsonian Institution's Human ...
2024年1月3日 · This 3-year-old child's skull is the first early human skull ever discovered in Africa. It was found in 1924, but it took over 20 years after that before scientists accepted the importance of Africa as a major source of human evolution .
Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in …
2020年4月1日 · The Broken Hill skull (Natural History Museum (NHM) registration number E686) (Fig. 1) was the first important human fossil found in Africa. It was recovered from deposits that were being...
Skull points to a more complex human evolution in Africa
2011年9月16日 · Reanalysis of the 13,000-year-old skull from a cave in West Africa reveals a skull more primitive-looking than its age suggests. The result suggests that the ancestors of early humans did not...
Australopithecus africanus - The Australian Museum
In 1924, a fossil was rescued from a limestone quarry at Taung in South Africa and sent to Australian, Raymond Dart who was a Professor of Anatomy in nearby Johannesburg. The now-famous Taung Child skull had a mixture of human-like and ape-like features.
New study reveals the genetics of human head shape
2023年11月17日 · When the researchers compared the 30 genomic regions associated with head shape across participants with European, African and Indigenous American ancestry, they found that the majority of...
Global patterns of the cranial form of modern human populations ...
2022年8月15日 · The African assemblage (Fig. 2b) was specifically characterized by a comparably large AUC (0.834) for PC2. Australo-Melanesians (Fig. 2 c) showed a similar tendency to Sub-Saharan Africans by PC2...
Dental evidence for extended growth in early Homo from Dmanisi
1 天前 · a–c, Computed tomography (CT)-based visualization of the skull and associated ... African early Homo ... beam whose spectrum was shaped with a tungsten filter to isolate a peak between the K ...
Can Skeletons Have a Racial Identity? - The New York Times
2021年10月19日 · An ancestry estimation might suggest people from both countries would have similarly shaped skulls. But population affinity acknowledges that the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonization by ...