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A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo

Overview of attention for article published in Science, October 2013
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28 blogs
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146 X users
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51 Wikipedia pages
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Title
A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo
Published in
Science, October 2013
DOI 10.1126/science.1238484
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Authors

David Lordkipanidze, Marcia S. Ponce de León, Ann Margvelashvili, Yoel Rak, G. Philip Rightmire, Abesalom Vekua, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer

Abstract

The site of Dmanisi, Georgia, has yielded an impressive sample of hominid cranial and postcranial remains, documenting the presence of Homo outside Africa around 1.8 million years ago. Here we report on a new cranium from Dmanisi (D4500) that, together with its mandible (D2600), represents the world's first completely preserved adult hominid skull from the early Pleistocene. D4500/D2600 combines a small braincase (546 cubic centimeters) with a large prognathic face and exhibits close morphological affinities with the earliest known Homo fossils from Africa. The Dmanisi sample, which now comprises five crania, provides direct evidence for wide morphological variation within and among early Homo paleodemes. This implies the existence of a single evolving lineage of early Homo, with phylogeographic continuity across continents.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 13 2%
United Kingdom 7 1%
Germany 6 <1%
Brazil 5 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Spain 4 <1%
Mexico 3 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Other 14 2%
Unknown 586 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 145 22%
Researcher 103 16%
Student > Bachelor 97 15%
Student > Master 84 13%
Professor 44 7%
Other 114 18%
Unknown 60 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 226 35%
Social Sciences 83 13%
Arts and Humanities 65 10%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 59 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 28 4%
Other 103 16%
Unknown 83 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1394. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 December 2023.
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Outputs from Science
#467
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