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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"early Homo"”.
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Dental pathology, wear and developmental defects in South African hominins
… robustus, Australopithecus africanus, A. sediba, early Homo, Homo naledi, baboons, chimpanzees and gorillas. Macroscopic examination of each specimen was performed, with a 10X hand lens used to verify certain pathologies. Variables recorded include antemortem chipping, enamel hypoplasia, caries, …
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Diagnosing Bone Fracture to Assess Early Hominin Behaviour, Meat-Eating, and Socioecology at FLK-Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
… that may have predicated food transport by early Homo. Early Homo food transport behaviour was structured by anti-predator defense strategies associated with a) foraging in an open habitat rich with competing predators, b) the lack of masticatory and digestive apparatus to quickly consume …
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New research methods for the analysis of fossil Anura ilia and their utility for reconstructing the palaeoenvironment of Swartkrans Cave
… largest known sample of fossils belonging to the early Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus robustus, as well as a handful of early Homo fossils. In this study, the fossil Anura community of Swartkrans Cave is reconstructed in order to determine whether local environmental conditions were consistent …
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Cross-sectional Morphology and Mechanical Loading in Plio-Pleistocene Hominins: Implications for Locomotion and Taxonomy
… and midshaft femur of Paranthropus, fossil Homo sp. and H. erectus. Modern human and Pan models are used for comparative purposes. Cross-sectional properties in the proximal and midshaft femur of fossil hominins are examined to test the hypothesis that members of the same genus should …