Estimating Surface Area in Early Hominins

Estimating Surface Area in Early Hominins

Height and weight-based methods of estimating surface area have played an important role in the development of the current consensus regarding the role of thermoregulation in human evolution. However, such methods may not be reliable when applied to early hominins because their limb proportions differ markedly from those of humans. Here, we report a study in which this possibility was evaluated...

Topic Introduction Estimating Surface Area in Biological Structures

Stereological estimates of surface have led to important insights into normal and pathological processes. This article describes the process of estimating surface area in biological structures. It includes a discussion of relationship equations for estimating surface and procedures for estimating surface area of components of organ systems. It also provides an example of estimation of the area ...

A Formula for Estimating Surface Area of Dairy Cattle

It has long been accepted as a fact that heat production in the animal body is due to the oxidation processes within the body, and hence is an accurate measure of the rate of metabolism. In order to utilize this standard in research, it becomes necessary to devise a satisfactory method for comparing the heat production of animals of different sizes. Very early in nutritional investigations it b...

Presence of Early Pleistocene Acheulian hominins in South India

Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis

Our updated review of sites bearing hominin remains and/or tools from Europe, including new findings from the Balkans, still indicates that the only compelling evidence of main hominin presence in these regions was only since ~0.9 million years ago (Ma), bracketed by the end of the Jaramillo geomagnetic polarity subchron (0.99 Ma) and the Brunhes-Matuyama polarity chron boundary (0.78 Ma). This...