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Modern humans
Also known as: Modern Humeans
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Homo erectus, our ancient ancestor | Natural History Museum nhm.ac.uk 4 facts
claimHomo erectus possessed a large face compared to modern humans.
claimHomo erectus individuals were more muscular and had wider hips than modern humans.
claimHomo erectus brain size was smaller than that of modern humans, in some cases nearly half the size, and Homo erectus skulls were thicker.
claimBased on the Turkana Boy skeleton, scientists concluded that Homo erectus walked and ran in a manner similar to modern humans.
To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything scientificamerican.com Jun 25, 2024 4 facts
claimThe presence of starch-consuming Streptococcus bacteria in Neandertals and modern humans indicates that the genus Homo had adapted to consuming abundant starchy plant foods by the time Neandertals and modern humans diverged from their last common ancestor approximately 600,000 years ago.
claimStreptococcus bacteria found in the mouths of Neandertals and modern humans consume sugars from starchy foods, including roots, seeds, and tubers.
claimNeandertals and modern humans possess a group of Streptococcus bacteria in their mouths that is absent in nonhuman primates.
claimJames Fellows Yates and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology analyzed bacterial DNA preserved in Neandertal tartar and compared it with bacterial DNA from the teeth of modern chimpanzees, gorillas, howler monkeys, and modern humans.
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimModern humans possess complex languages, sophisticated technology, intricate stores of cultural knowledge and beliefs, and an advanced theory of mind, as cited by Richerson and Christiansen (2013) and Tomasello (2014).
claimBenítez-Burraco et al. (2020) describe the high level of intragroup tolerance and cooperative communication in modern humans as a result of selection for prosociality, a process termed self-domestication.
Evolutionary Eating — What We Can Learn From Our Primitive Past todaysdietitian.com Apr 1, 2009 1 fact
claimModern humans are genetically adapted to the environment in which their ancestors survived and which conditioned their genetic makeup.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 1 fact
claimModern Humeans, including Derek Parfit (1971; 1984) and Barry Dainton (2008), replace the metaphor of the mind as a theatre with the concept of a co-consciousness relation.