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Géoarchéologie dans le « Berceau de l’humanité » : Gauteng, Afrique du Sud
Archéopages, 2010 The Valley of Blauawbankspruit in South Africa was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1999 under the heading "The Cradle of Humankind". The term refers to the great density of hominid remains found there, dating from the appearance of the genus ...
Laurent Bruxelles
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Catalogue of fossil sites at the Buxton Limeworks, Taung [PDF]
, 1994 The Buxton Limeworks, in the Taung district at the southeastern margin of the Kalahari Desert, harbours fossil deposits in the calcareous tufas spanning a time period from the late Pliocene to the present.
McKee, Jeffrey K
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Humanlike manual activities in Australopithecus
Journal of Human EvolutionThe evolution of the human hand is a topic of great interest in paleoanthropology. As the hand can be involved in a vast array of activities, knowledge regarding how it was used by early hominins can yield crucial information on the factors driving biocultural evolution.
Jana Kunze +3 more
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Comentario: A la Presentación del Hombre de las Cavernas. De los Primeros Homínidos al Neanderthal
Medicina, 2015 <p>Luego de la ponderada exposición del doctor Mendoza, en el corto espacio de que disponemos solo nos resta recapitular algunos de los aspectos más relevantes de su disertación y resumir algunos hitos que precedieron y otros que tuvieron ...
Gonzalo Correal Urrego
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Geopolítica del registro fósil de homínidos africanos [PDF]
, 2013 Proyecto fin de carrera en Biología Evolutiva y BiodiversidadA lo largo del último siglo se han descubierto en África multitud de yacimientos con restos fósiles de homínidos.
Prieto Díaz, Pablo
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South African Journal of ScienceThe palaeocave site of Drimolen Main Quarry (DMQ) in Gauteng Province, South Africa, has produced fossil hominin material dating to 2.04–1.95 Ma, including craniodental remains attributed to Paranthropus robustus and the earliest specimen of Homo ...
Ellie Berg +8 more
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Catalogue of immature hominin fossils from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Annals of Human BiologyBackground: This study evaluates the fossil remains of South African hominins curated at the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg (Wits University), the largest repository of human evolution assemblages in southern Africa.Aim: The aim of the study ...
Debra R. Bolter, Bernhard Zipfel
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Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis
Current BiologyThe evolution of bipedal gait is a key adaptive feature in hominids,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 but the running abilities of early hominins have not been extensively studied.2 Here, we present physics simulations of Australopithecus afarensis that demonstrate this genus was mechanically capable of bipedal running but with absolute and ...
Bates, Karl T +8 more
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The contribution of Raymond Dart to the development of cave taphonomy [PDF]
, 1997 Main articleThe basic principles of African cave taphonomy were formulated in 1976, but twenty years earlier, Raymond Dart embarked on a pioneering taphonomic investigation into a hominid-bearing fossil assemblage from the Makapansgat Limeworks cave ...
Brain
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