This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The HC-LCA would have had an ape-sized brain and body, with relatively long arms and fingers ...
E (New York, NY: Springer, 2009) 101-120. DeSilva, J. M. & Lesnik, J. J. Brain size at birth throughout human evolution: a new method for estimating neonatal brain size in hominins. Journal of ...
in years ago): 7.6—6 million BRAIN SIZE (est., in cu cm): 360-370 (slightly smaller than a male chimp's) SPECIAL FEATURES: oldest known hominin; set apart from other fossil apes by smaller ...
More information: Chris Venditti et al, Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size, Nature Ecology & Evolution ...
A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human ... cell types in ...
The most primitive hominid ... chimp's brain), smaller canine teeth, and larger molars. The wear of the teeth suggests that A. africanus ate fruits and foliage. Believed to be roughly the same ...