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Proposal to rewrite the human family tree: expand the genus Homo to 5 million years ago

Proposal to rewrite the human family tree: expand the genus Homo to 5 million years ago

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A new article in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology argues that the conventional division into three genera – Homo, Australopithecus, and Paranthropus – no longer accurately reflects the evolutionary relationships emerging from fossils and phylogenetic analyses.
The evolution of human body size was not a straight path of growth.

The evolution of human body size was not a straight path of growth.

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An analysis of 386 fossils from 21 hominin species found a combination of a gradual increase in body weight and a significant jump that occurred within the genus Homo about two million to two and a half million years ago. At the same time,
The body structure of Australopithecus afarensis significantly limits its running speed. Imaging of the Australopithecus skeleton, with and without muscles | From the article, Bates, KT. et al., Current Biology, 2024

Evolutionary race

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New study: An ancient species in the human lineage walked on two legs, but could not run as fast and efficiently as we do
Imaging of Australopithecus. Illustration: shutterstock

"Lucy, the Australopithecus fossil - evidence that erectness preceded brain growth"

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Throwing corpses into an isolated room in a cave, to protect them from scavengers, is probably the first burial custom. Illustration ART BY JON FOSTER. SOURCE: LEE BERGER, WITS

Where does the human species discovered in the DRAP fit in the tree of human evolution, and maybe it was even a side branch?

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Kalachao Siyum, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona, of Ethiopian descent, shows the jawbone he discovered at a site in Afar State, Ethiopia, which dates the first species in the human lineage to 2.8 million years ago. Photo: Arizona State University

A jawbone discovered in Ethiopia indicates that the human lineage began 2.8 million years ago, earlier than previously thought (video)

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Australopithecus sediva, from Wikipedia

New great grandmother? Science reports the discovery of an important link in human evolution

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Prof. Richard Wrangham, Harvard University. Photo: Harvard University Public Relations Department

Cooking made us human

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Human development and the grass plains

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The denial of evolution - the example of the statue of the three monkeys. Photo: shutterstock

"From Amoeba to Man": A Common and Misconception of Evolution

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

A footprint in Egypt may be the oldest

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A 19th century cartoon depicting Darwin as a monkey

Asimov on - A long look at the monkey

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By ELApro - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36550614

The exhibits are against the Bible, let's put them away

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This is what the evangelicals in Kenya want to do to the findings of Dr. Richard Leakey, who dug in Kenya and discovered fossils of some of the pre-human species
Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

A missing link between two of man's ancestors was discovered in Ethiopia

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Running - the key to human evolution

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Is man allowed from ape - one mutation? Now some dispute that

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

A skull of an ape, considered the missing link in human evolution, has been restored

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

The teeth revealed: this is an ancestor

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Humans became meat eaters about 2.5 million years ago

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Creationism or evolution

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

"Thomai", 7 million years old, may be the ancestor of man

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

The very idea that it would be possible to clone Lucy

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

New research: the ancient man did not have an age of puberty

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Creationism (the denial of evolution): not a thieving rat, a thieving bastard

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

the missing link

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