| Some bones also bear evidence that hominins used fist-sized stones to break them open to acquire bone marrow. |
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| East African hominins may have suffered during dust storms, particularly from particles carried in by winds from the Arabian peninsula. |
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| Although hominins are relatively rare in the assemblage, remains of cercopithecoid primates are much more common. |
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| In Eurasia, contrarily, hominins disappeared by the beginning of the Pliocene. |
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| The arm is long relative to the leg, resulting in body proportions that differ dramatically from those of more-modern hominins. |
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| Studies published in March 2016 suggest that modern humans bred with hominins, including Denisovans and Neanderthals, on multiple occasions. |
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| The skeletal anatomy combines primitive features known from australopithecines with features known from early hominins. |
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| Each of these have been argued to be a bipedal ancestor of later hominins but, in each case, the claims have been contested. |
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| One of the first known hominins, it was nicknamed 'handy man' by discoverer Louis Leakey due to its association with stone tools. |
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| The primitive morphology and very large size of these molars supported the DNA-based conclusion that the Denisovans were a distinct population of archaic hominins. |
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| The most remarkable aspect of this skull is the broadness and flatness of its face something previously associated with much more recent hominins in conjunction with a smaller, ape-sized braincase. |
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| At Happisburgh the hominins are likely to have eaten more plants in summer and more meat in winter – and then hunting or scavenging in shorter days, and sometimes extreme cold. |
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| This observation supports a scenario whereby a European diversification of hominins culminating in the Neanderthals was descended from a population of H. heidelbergensis that had exited Africa. |
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| Each of these species has been argued to be a bipedal ancestor of later hominins, but all such claims are contested. |
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| At the beginning of the Paleolithic, hominins were found primarily in eastern Africa, east of the Great Rift Valley. |
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| There is no evidence of hominins in America, Australia, or almost anywhere in Oceania during this time period. |
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| The early paleolithic hominins, Australopithecus, were the first users of stone tools. |
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| The first recognizable hominins, the australopithecines, appeared in the Pliocene. |
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| Conventionally, therefore, European hominins younger than 243,000 years old are called Neanderthals. |
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| Studies published in March 2016 suggest that modern humans bred with hominins, including Neanderthals, on multiple occasions. |
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| The final test of any palaeoanthropological hypothesis is its ability to explain why hominins are unique. |
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| Researchers have suggested that early hominins were thus under evolutionary pressure to increase their capacity to create and use tools. |
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| The brains of these early hominins were about the same size as that of a chimpanzee, and their main adaptation was bipedalism as an adaptation to terrestrial living. |
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| At the time the Happisburgh hominins lived, a land bridge existed between Britain and France before the formation of the English Channel about 450,000 years ago. |
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| Though one site, Kanedori in Honshu, does suggest the use of watercraft as early as 84,000 years ago, there is no other evidence of hominins in Japan until 50,000 years ago. |
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| In 1871 there were hardly any human fossils of ancient hominins available. |
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| From the 1950s forward, numerous finds in East Africa confirmed the hypothesis of an African genesis, providing fossil evidence that the earliest hominins originated there. |
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| Bipedalism is the basic adaption of the hominin line, and it is considered the main cause behind a suite of skeletal changes shared by all bipedal hominins. |
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| In March 2016, studies were published that suggest that modern humans bred with hominins, including Denisovans and Neanderthals, on multiple occasions. |
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| Some scientists have hypothesized that hominins began cooking food to defrost frozen meat, which would help ensure their survival in cold regions. |
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