Fossil ribcages of Homo sapiens provide new insights into modern human evolution

Abstract Recent research on the Nariokotome Boy’s ribcage suggests the slender thorax of modern H. sapiens is a derived condition. However, since digital ribcage reconstructions of fossil H. sapiens are not available yet, it is unknown whether these individuals would have had a primitive or derived...

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Main Authors: José M. López-Rey, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Hila May, Dani Nadel, Carlos A. Palancar, Marta Gómez-Recio, Daniel García-Martínez, Markus Bastir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08472-3
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