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Cranium Sizes of Primitive Men
November 26th, 2014
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The primitive man would not like to be referred to very much, because after all, everything about him was not as primitive as we would like to think. Today, everyone is in praise of the Stone Age diet, the diet that comprises of gathered, hunted, fished or collected food. And we still refer to the early men as primitive. However, we are not about that here. We are about their cranium sizes. Why, as some had their skulls bigger than the modern man, weren’t they more innovative as we are now? Let’s start with the skull of the Boskop man believed to have lived in South Africa at least 10,000 years ago. They say that the Boskop Cranium was 30 percent bigger than that of the modern man. The homo Floresiensis had a brain size of 417cc, just slightly bigger than that of a chimpanzee. Some of the species had very small brains and its little wonder they are extinct. For example, the oldest of them all, Sahelanthropus tchadenensis had a brain capacity of 350cc only, that is, going by the size of the cranium. That, by all sizes is very small. Then there was the Astralopithecus Afarensis. This one had about 375 to 500 CC for brain as it had a small skull, similar to that of a chimpanzee. Australopithecus Aethiopicus had a small cranium size. Its brain size was estimated to be 410cc. The hind parts of the skull look under-developed and primitive. Homo Habilis, also called the handy man, had a slightly larger brain size, between 650cc and 800cc. No wonder then that he was able to make and use tools. The cranium is also more human-like, and so was the brain showing that this man had characteristics that we have today. Then there is the homo sapiens who had a brain size of 1200cc and more. This is the closest to the modern man who has 1350cc. Can you zoom to the correct cranium size? Image courtesy of: http://blog.sciseek.com/2009/12/22/skull-bone-may-hold-the-key-to-tackling-osteoporosis/ |
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