“What’s in a Name?” The Taxonomy & Phylogeny of Early Homo [PDF]
Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2016 Hominin systematics, encompassing both taxonomy and phylogeny (Strait, 2013), has significant implications for how the evolution of species and traits are understood and communicated.
Galway-Witham, Julia
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Early evolution of small body size in Homo floresiensis [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsRecent discoveries of Homo floresiensis and H. luzonensis raise questions regarding how extreme body size reduction occurred in some extinct Homo species in insular environments.
Yousuke Kaifu +12 more
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Spinal cord evolution in early Homo
Journal of Human Evolution, 2015 The discovery at Nariokotome of the Homo erectus skeleton KNM-WT 15000, with a narrow spinal canal, seemed to show that this relatively large-brained hominin retained the primitive spinal cord size of African apes and that brain size expansion preceded postcranial neurological evolution.
Marc R. Meyer, Martin Haeusler
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Did climate change make Homo sapiens innovative, and if yes, how? Debated perspectives on the African Pleistocene record [PDF]
Quaternary Science AdvancesOur enhanced capacity to innovate is a key feature that sets Homo sapiens apart as a species. The Middle Stone Age archaeological record of Pleistocene Africa documents the emergence and elaboration of this capacity, and its relationship to changes in ...
Jayne Wilkins, Benjamin J. Schoville
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What the eastern African stone tool evidence tells us about Plio-Pleistocene hominin extinctions [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: ExtinctionThis paper examines the stone tool evidence associated with extinctions among Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo in Eastern Africa between 0.8 and 3.5 Ma.
John J. Shea
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Learner-driven innovation in the stone tool technology of early Homo sapiens. [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2020 Current perspectives of stone tool technology tend to emphasize homogeneity in tool forms and core reduction strategies across time and space. This homogeneity is understood to represent shared cultural traditions that are passed down through the ...
Wilkins J.
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The evolution of early Homo: a reply to Scott.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2014 Scott presents a welcome reply to our article, "A single lineage in early Pleistocene Homo" (Van Arsdale and Wolpoff ). However, Scott's reply mischaracterizes and fails to directly address the hypothesis of a single lineage that we test. Additionally, the approach taken by Scott fails to replicate the methods used in our analysis.
Van Arsdale, A. P., Wolpoff, M. H.
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Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago
Communications Earth & EnvironmentQuestions about when early members of the genus Homo adapted to extreme environments like deserts and rainforests have traditionally focused on Homo sapiens.
Julio Mercader +27 more
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Testing the taxonomy of Dmanisi hominin fossils through dental crown area. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe Dmanisi paleoanthropological assemblage from Georgia is among the most debated collections of hominin fossils due to its early age and extreme morphological diversity relative to other Homo assemblages.
Victor Nery +3 more
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Ledi-Geraru strikes again: Morphological affinities of the LD 350-1 mandible with early Homo [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2023 The origins of the genus Homo have been a focus of much debate in the paleoanthropological literature due to its importance in understanding the evolutionary trajectories that led to the appearance of archaic humans and our species.
WALTER NEVES +4 more
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