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NewHuman

Pathways to humanity: Adaptive niche diversity at the origins of the human lineage

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Funder: European CommissionProject code: 819960 Call for proposal: ERC-2018-COG
Funded under: H2020 | ERC | ERC-COG Overall Budget: 1,998,640 EURFunder Contribution: 1,998,640 EUR
Status: On going
Start Date
01 Jul 2019
End Date
30 Jun 2024
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For almost 100 years, the evolution of humans has been summarized as a transition from small-brained bipeds with an ape-like body plan (referred to as australopiths), to large-brained striding bipeds with a human-like body plan (members of the genus Homo). This characterisation dominates popular perception of human evolution in the public sphere. However, three newly discovered fossil human (hominin) species (H. naledi, H. floresiensis and Australopithecus sediba) do not fit this simple transitional model in either morphology or time (the former two surviving contemporaneously with modern humans), and have re-ignited debate about the origin of the Homo lineage, ...

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University of Kent, Lakehead University, TUW, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND JOHANNESBURG

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University of Kent, Lakehead University, TUW, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND JOHANNESBURG

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