While researching for a separate project I was confronted with the variation of life histories across the hominin lineage. This variation is quite fascinating as it makes one wonder which of these are requisite to being a "modern human" and how did this variation affect the perceptions and experiences of these species?

Studies mentioned in the episode:

Schwartz - 2012 - Growth, Development, and Life History throughout the Evolution of Homo.

Meyer & Haeusler - 2015 - Spinal cord evolution in early Homo.

Turecek, Lehnert1 & Ginty - 2022 - The encoding of touch by somatotopically

aligned dorsal column subdivisions.

Baab et al. - 2021 - Assessing the status of the KNM-ER 42700 fossil using Homo erectus

neurocranial development.

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