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This project explores the evolutionary history of humans by analyzing fossil hominin teeth and bones. It aims to uncover the ecological niches and adaptive strategies of newly discovered species, challenging existing views on human evolution.
For almost 100 years, the evolution of humans has been summarized as a transition from small-brained bipeds with an ape-like body plan (referred to as australopiths), to large-brained striding bipeds with a human-like body plan (members of the genus Homo).
This characterisation dominates popular perception of human evolution in the public sphere.
However, three newly discovered fossil human (hominin) species (H. naledi, H. floresiensis and Australopithecus sediba) do not fit this simple transiti…
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Austria, Wien
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND JOHANNESBURG
South Africa, Johannesburg
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
Canada, Thunder Bay
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
United Kingdom, Canterbury, Kent
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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