#hominid — Public Fediverse posts
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Very fascinating new #findings from a #molecular point of view about the 2015 discovered new species of #hominid, #Homo #naledi, found in the #RisingStarcave in South Africa. According to anatomical characters, an #age of about 2,5 million years was estimated. Read about first #moleculardata of the specimen in the linked article.
© #StefanFWirth 2026Ref
Radical Anthropology
https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/116810427514777718#Photo:
Homo naledi, authors Lee Roger Berger team, 2015, licensed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de -
Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki
Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilize…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #China #Climate #climatechange #Early-MiddlePleistocenetransition #Fossil #Gigantopithecus #Gigantopithecusblacki #Greatape #Guangxi #Hominid #paleoclimate #Pleistocene #Primate #Teeth #YanliCave1
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The lost languages of ancient humans.
The bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?
Paleoanthropologists study millions of years of fossil evidence to try and reconstruct the voices of the past.
#Language #Archaeology #Anthropology #Evolution #History #Hominid #Science
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Signs of a 400 000-year-old Neanderthal campfire have been found in the UK.
Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its inhabitants bringing iron pyrite to the area specifically to enable them to light fires.
The hearth was discovered near a buried site that was once a pond where Neanderthals are thought to have lived 415 000 years ago.
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Fossil Footprints Reveal Two Species Of Human Ancestors Lived Side-By-Side, A Scientific First
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https://www.earth.com/news/hominin-footprints-show-two-extinct-species-of-early-humans-lived-side-by-side/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado5275 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2022.10.007 <-- shared paper
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[not my usual ‘general’ subject matter to post – but who amazing and impressive to find/recognise and then decipher this!]
#fieldwork #3Dvisualisation #spatialanalysis #anthropology #tracefossils #hominid #homoerectus #paranthropusboilei #africa #fossil #footprint #human #evolution #ancestor #dating #TurkanaBasin #kenya #africa #sediment #sedimentology #water #hydrology #LakeTurkana #shoreline #geology #soil #stratigraphy #palaeontology #paleontology #model #modeling #remotesensing -
Looks like another new hominid! Here’s the telling sentence: “Maba 1 currently cannot be definitely classified in any known hominin taxon.” #AncientDNA #isogg #hominid #Maba1 #geneadons #dna
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Looks like another new hominid! Here’s the telling sentence: “Maba 1 currently cannot be definitely classified in any known hominin taxon.” #AncientDNA #isogg #hominid #Maba1 #geneadons #dna
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Looks like another new hominid! Here’s the telling sentence: “Maba 1 currently cannot be definitely classified in any known hominin taxon.” #AncientDNA #isogg #hominid #Maba1 #geneadons #dna
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Looks like another new hominid! Here’s the telling sentence: “Maba 1 currently cannot be definitely classified in any known hominin taxon.” #AncientDNA #isogg #hominid #Maba1 #geneadons #dna
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A partial jaw bone that was found by fishermen has been a puzzle for a long time. It was thought that it was a neanderthal bone, but bone was not old enough. Perhaps the neanderthals died out much later? DNA could not be extracted. But now by extracting tooth proteins the puzzle has been solved. It is actually a bone from a Denisovan man. It offers a new insight into early hominids.
https://thedebrief.org/a-mysterious-fossil-from-an-unknown-humanlike-species-once-baffled-scientists-now-we-know-what-it-is/ -
10 #Oldest #Human #Skeletons in the World
https://www.oldest.org/people/human-skeletons
While many #hominid or human #ancestor skeletons have been discovered that date back millions of years, the oldest modern human (#Homosapiens) skeletons are significantly more recent. Research suggests that Homo sapiens only appeared about 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. Some of the earliest #humanremains date back to this time, while the oldest nearly complete skeletons are only about 100,000 years old.
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This is the dumbest thing that I've read this year, and I'm in the U.S.
Why would you take #hominid bones on a Virgin Galactic #spaceflight trip? What sort of publicity are you trying to generate? Is the University of #Witwatersrand losing students and looking for a way to attract them back?
"... for the promotion of #science and discoveries in South Africa."
Uh-huh.
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“The HLD 6 mandible provides further support for the high morphological diversity during late Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution. With these findings, it is possible that modern human morphologies are present as early as 300 ka and earlier than the emergence of modern humans in East Asia.” #isogg #dna #ancientdna #hominid #geneadons
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248423000908 -
The world’s oldest stone tools were made by an ape-like hominid 3.3 million years ago, predating the emergence of the genus Homo by half a million years. This suggests that tool-making was not a unique feature of our ancestors but a more widespread and ancient skill among hominids. The discovery also challenges the conventional view that stone tools were linked to larger brains and language evolution. #stonetools #hominid #evolution https://www.iflscience.com/worlds-oldest-stone-tools-were-made-by-ape-like-hominid-33-million-years-ago-70138/
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Hominid and hominin – what’s the difference?
"Current use of the term ‘hominid’ can be confusing because the definition of this word has changed over time."
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/hominid-and-hominin-whats-the-difference/
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New paper on #hominid footprints, limb kinematics, and feet, out now in NatEcolEvo: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01929-2
We used #XROMM and #DEM #Simulation to view and model the foot sediment interaction.
The arch in early hominid tracks likely does _not_ reflect anatomy, but does inform about kinematics
