> >>> Canine sexual dimorphism in Ardipithecus ramidus was nearly human-like.
> >
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2116630118
> > Body & canine size dimorphism in fossils inform socio-behavioral hypotheses on human evolution, and have been of interest since Darwin’s famous reflections on the subject.
> > Here, we assemble a large data-set of fossil canines of the human(??--mv) clade, incl. all available Ar.ramidus fossils (Middle Awash & Gona), and systematically examine canine dimorphism through evolutionary time ... we apply a Bayesian probabilistic method that reduces bias when estimating weak & moderate levels of dimorphism.
> > Our results:
> > Ar.ramidus canine dimorphism was significantly weaker than in the bonobo, the least dimorphic & behaviorally least aggressive among extant great apes.
> > Average male-to-female canine size ratios are estimated as 1.06 & 1.13 in upper & lower canines resp., within modern human population ranges of variation.
> > The slightly greater magnitude of canine size dimorphism in the lower than upper canines of Ar.ramidus appears to be shared with early Australopithecus:
> > was male canine reduction initially more advanced in the behaviorally important upper canine?
> > The available fossil evidence suggests
> > - a drastic size reduction(??--mv) of the male canine prior to Ar.ramidus & the earliest known members of the human(??--mv) clade,
> > - little change in canine dimorphism levels thereafter.
> > This evolutionary pattern indicates a profound behavioral shift ass.x comparatively weak levels of male aggression early in human evolution,
> > this pattern that was subsequently shared by Australopithecus & Homo.
> >> Jesus, what a bollocks. Do our males really look less aggressive?
> >> Of course, Ardipithecus ramidus was bipedal. ....
> > Yes, bollocks.
> > Incredibly prejudiced (anthropocentric).
> Actually, it is always the same (Catholic) narrative, spirituality,
> "God is love", intellectual spark has shit us, this is why we are so
> spiritual, and the same sh.t, all over again, in every pore of
> paleoanthropology. We are not just like normal animals, we are closer to
> God, godlike behaving is what determine us, it is our main characteristics.
Yes, many PAs still (unconsciously, anthropocentrically) believe there'sa fundamental difference: humans are "higher" than apes & other animals.
It's not: our evolution underwent special circumstances, but: we are animals like all others:
all naked & fat mammals live in warm(er) waters - we wear clothes, and probably lost weight, but so did our ancestors.
This is confirmed by everything we know: our very big brains (DHA), our "linear" build, our flat feet etc.:
only incredible imbeciles still believe their Pleistocene ancestors ran after antelopes.