Cranial capacity

means to want more than survival,humans have adapted their physical differences,morality and became proactive. The most noticeable difference between humans and other life forms on earth are our physical differences.Through evolution, the human cranial capacity and brain cerebral cortex is more complex compared to primates,which are closest to humans.This helped improved human's ability to modify and adapt to environments.Also , since the brain is more complex it has helped us develop…

it allows us to see the evolution of how much growth and adaptation the cranial part and therefore the intelligence level of this species has done…

matter as to whether Neanderthals were complete failures and lacked the mental capacity to survive or if they were indeed intelligent for their time; the use of skeletal and other bodily structures, language development, the knowledge and use of tools and symbolic capacity are all arguments and evidence on the grounds of proving the levels of intelligences Neanderthals are granted. The Neanderthal Brain and Cranial Structures There is much debate around the topic of Neanderthals and their…

This is visible in the comparison between australopithecine cranial capacity which lies between 340 and 600cc while the H. ergaster cranial capitity is round 880cc. This can even be more when looking at OH 9 or ‘Chellean Man’ whose cranial capacity was approximately 1067cc (Rightmire,1979). When looking at KNM-ER 406, robust Australopithecine Paranthropus boisei, one observes that presence of a sagittal…

Homo sapiens, or our modern people, are the only living species in homo genus these days. However, as we all known, before a long time like 100,000 years ago, the primitive society indeed existed some species which belong to our genus Homo. All of them have disappeared and extinct for a long time, those are Hominins that we called. In 2015, Berger et al reported a discovery named the Homo naledi, they found at least 15 individuals and multiple examples to do their research (Berger et al, 2015;…

the cervical vertebrae and markings of the digastric muscle located in the mandibular symphysis. However, the cervical vertebrae reveal that the spinal cord was thinner than in modern humans. This may indicate that this species had limited speech capacity due to the lack of nerves needed for the complex control of breathing while speaking.Even if ergaster never formed a form of verbal language, the well developed brain could have allowed symbolic communication.…

Homo naledi has a cranial capacity of 513 and the highest Australopithecine cranial capacity is 493, whereas the lowest cranial capacity of the early Homo material (without including the Homo naledi material) is 610. The palate breadth of Homo naledi is 44. This could be similar to either Australopithecines or the early Homo material…

TITLE OF THE ESSAY Introduction In the year of 1984, an almost complete skeleton, with the exception of the hands and feet, of an eight-year old boy was found by Kamoya Kimeu in Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya (Brown et al., 1986). The Nariokotome Boy, formerly known as the Turkana Boy/WT 15000, was very special in that it was the only hominid from the H.erectus produced with the most complete skeleton and was chronometrically dated back to about 1.6 million years (Brown et al., 1986).…

there have been hominins, the brain size has roughly tripled. Most of this growth has occurred in the last 2 million years. The brain size of one of the oldest known hominins, A. Aferensis, measures approximately 550 cc (based on measurements of cranial capacity), roughly equivalent to modern apes, like the chimpanzee (at 400-500cc), and the gorilla (at 500-700cc). The expansion of the hominid brain appears to have only really begun with the genus Homo. Between 2 million and 700,000 years ago,…

The first modern human fossils found in Western Europe were those from the archaic species Cro-Magnon. These fossils were discovered in March of the year 1868, near the village of Les Eyzies in southwestern France, which is now modern day Dordogne (1). This species existed during the Upper Paleolithic era and the site was carbon dated to 35,000-10,000 years ago (2). Five Cro-Magnon individuals were found, one infant, one female, and three males dated at 28,000 years ago (2). These…