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Fossil WLH-50 is a partial cranium fossil that was discovered in 1982, [1] in the Willandra Lakes Region of Australia and was reconstructed by Alan Thorne. [2] Based on its overall dimensions and the growth of cranial features, WLH-50 has been determined to be a male skullcap. [3]
The size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy, biological anthropology, animal science and evolution.Measuring brain size and cranial capacity is relevant both to humans and other animals, and can be done by weight or volume via MRI scans, by skull volume, or by neuroimaging intelligence testing.
Denisova hominin (X-Woman) 40 Homo sp. Altai: 2008 Russia: Johannes Krause, et al. hominin toe bone: 40 Homo sp. Altai (possible Neanderthal–Denisovan hybrid) 2010 Russia: Oase 1: 42–37 [142] Homo sapiens (EEMH x Neanderthal hybrid) 2002 Romania: Kostenki-14 (Markina Gora) 40–37 [143] Homo sapiens 1954 Russia: SID-20 [144] 37.30±0.83 ...
Similarly, the post-orbital constriction index has become a form to compare and contrast craniums with the possibility of determining the relative age and evolutionary place of a new found hominin. Cranial capacity and post-orbital constriction index can demonstrate a correlation between increased brain size and reduced post-orbital ...
The skulls were significant not only in their set of unique features. Skull 5 was the first found completely preserved adult hominin skull from the Early Pleistocene, [4] and Skull 4 is the only toothless hominin discovered in such early sediments. [16] In addition to the skulls, about a hundred postcranial remains have been discovered. [4]
The specimen was studied by the Australian anatomist Raymond Dart, who was then working at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The fossil skull was from a three-year-old bipedal primate (nicknamed Taung Child) that he named Australopithecus africanus. The first report was published in Nature in February 1925.
In fact, the paper explores how “extreme body size reduction occurred in some extinct Homo species,” including how the new bone is “exceptionally small” when compared to other fossils.
The Dmanisi skull, also known as Skull 5 or D4500, is one of five skulls discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia and classified as early Homo erectus.Described in a publication in October 2013, it is estimated to be about 1.8 million years old and is the most complete skull of a Pleistocene Homo species, [1] [2] and the first complete adult hominin skull of that degree of antiquity.