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5 days ago · Scientists have reconstructed the face of an ancient ape species called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, giving us a fresh glimpse into the story of human and great ape evolution. Leading this fascinating research is Kelsey Pugh, a research associate in the American Museum of Natural History’s Division of Anthropology and a lecturer at Brooklyn ...
3 days ago · Early modern human (EMH), or anatomically modern human (AMH), [1] are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens (the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans, from extinct archaic human species.
3 days ago · Homo (from Latin homō 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.
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1 day ago · Research history. The first Australopithecus specimen, the type specimen, was discovered in 1924 in a lime quarry by workers at Taung, South Africa. The specimen was studied by the Australian anatomist Raymond Dart, who was then working at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
4 days ago · Australopithecus - Human Ancestor, Evolution, Fossils: The first species to be identified as Australopithecus received that name in 1925, and, after nearly a century of discoveries, paleoanthropologists are able draw upon a fairly rich storehouse of fossil hominin specimens from Africa.
4 days ago · Second, repetitive evolution is an emergent feature of evolution and such convergences are consistent with other examples of independent evolution, such as for the middle ears attached to the ...
3 days ago · evolution, theory in biology postulating that the various types of plants, animals, and other living things on Earth have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations.
