#hominid

[berensreverie]

A homo neanderthalensis and a homo sapiens. Happy pride!

[himarudolf]

FORERUNNERS

A troop of Ardipithecus on the run. One individual pushes its forelimbs off the ground, propelling the upper body upward. For a brief moment, one footstep is followed by another, arms flailing on the side before landing back down.

Not yet.

[artofmaquenda]

I enjoy creating artwork with compositions that highlight the interconnectedness of all things, even though I must work within the limits of what I’m capable of, and it often feels like an imperfect attempt to capture such complexity.

[alphynix]

Spectember/Spectober 2025 #05: Strangels

We're continuing into Spectober with another anonymous request, this one asking for: "Hominids that evolved with 6 limbs, 2 of which are wings. Limb placement is up to you."

Living several million years in a possible future, Anomalangelus anthropogenis is a bizarre case of a six-limbed primate.

Its additional pair of upper limbs originate from a heritable form of notomelic polymelia, similar to the Developmental Duplications condition seen in our time's domestic cattle. It has a rather chimeric genome that appears to contain ancestry from several different hominid lineages, suggesting that this strange little creature actually descends from something that was originally genetically engineered.

It's a tiny dwarfed species, only about 25cm long (~10"), with a highly arboreal omnivorous loris-like lifestyle, spending most of its life clambering around in trees. Although its extra limbs can't move independently, lacking a lot of functional musculature and nerve connections, they've been exapted into brightly-patterned display structures and also serve as attachment for a large gliding membrane – Anomalangelus uses its forelimbs to grab hold of these "wings" while airborne, spreading them out and stabilizing them to form a composite wing.

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[amnhnyc]

Our species, Homo sapiens, is thought to have emerged hundreds of thousands of years ago. But what comes next? Are humans continuing to evolve, or will we simply stay the way we are? Join Museum Curators Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall on an exploreation of what makes our chance of evolving today different from the ancient past, why human cognition is so unique compared to any other species, and what both biology and anthropology have to contribute to this complex question.

[waspspots]

The finished fossil timescale vase! Seven periods represented by seven fossils in the seven colors of the rainbow. Closeups and fossil names below

Red: Trilobites, ammonites, and pikaia among other things for the Cambrian. Orange: Tiktaalik filling in as the Devonian representative, had to include the iconic transition fossil :] Yellow: Thrinaxodon and Broomistega in the Triassic cuddle. Green: my favorite pterosaur, Ramphorynchus, representing the Jurassic. Blue: my first favorite dinosaur, Spinosaurus, for the Cretaceous. Indigo: my favorite animal, a coelacanth, sort of wedged in for the Late Cretaceous since I couldn't come up with a better Cenozoic fossil in time. Violet: Sahelanthropus Tchadensis, an early hominid (I'm not 100% on if it's still regarded as our earliest known ancestor, cool regardless!!)

[paleoart]

Extended Family VIII Zuberi Paranthropus boisei

Zuberi combines physical might with a gentle spirit, his robust frame concealing a guardian's heart. He excels in foraging and identifying plants, and though he is not much of a talker, Zuberi shares his wisdom through gestures and actions. Likes: the crunching sounds of chewing, misty mornings Dislikes: confrontation, being alone

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This is one in a series of portraits featuring different hominids under an intimate and humanizing light. Take these reconstructions with a grain of salt, but ask yourself: how similar to ourselves could our cousins have been?

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[revretch]

Gonna be honest, it's boring to me when people try to make the stock DnD races look like furries of some existing mammals. It's more interesting when you remember what a hominid actually is, which is some kind of fucked up ape. Make me some *really* fucked up apes