O ne of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids ...

and the first migration of hominids outside Africa. The Nariokotome boy and his kind represent the beginning of a new phase of human prehistory.

(Early hominids, such as the Australopithecines, grew at a faster rate than modern humans.) This fossilized skull was the first Autralopithecus specimen. With a brain larger than a chimp's but ...

Of these, only the first molar begins forming prior to birth ... Re-evaluation of the age at death of immature fossil hominids. Nature 317, 525-527 (1985). Coqueugniot, H.

But at least it left us the vault." First discovered in 1891 in Indonesia, Homo erectus is one of the best known ancient hominids. In body size and limb proportions it was much like modern people.

At some stage the hominids split off from the apes and began to develop one of the first and perhaps most important human characteristics - the ability to walk upright. The earliest ancestors of ...

Since the first modern humans burst out of Africa to exterminate the Neanderthals in Europe and the Denisovan hominids in Asia, waves of humans have been seizing land from prior settlers.

The first major evolutionary change in the human ... Archaeological evidence for meat-eating by Plio-Pleistocene hominids from Koobi Fora and Olduvai Gorge. Nature 291, 547-577 (1981).

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Knees change and adapt in response to their use, or lack thereof. A global increase in nutrition causing humans to be taller ...