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The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherited tool use specialisation can exhibit flexibility, while tool use that is spontaneously innovated can be limited in its expression and facilitated
Jennifer A. D. Colbourne, Alice M. I. Auersperg   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

External auditory exostoses in the Xuchang and Xujiayao human remains: Patterns and implications among eastern Eurasian Middle and Late Pleistocene crania.

PLoS ONE, 2017
In the context of Middle and Late Pleistocene eastern Eurasian human crania, the external auditory exostoses (EAE) of the late archaic Xuchang 1 and 2 and the Xujiayao 15 early Late Pleistocene human temporal bones are described.
Erik Trinkaus, Xiu-Jie Wu
doaj   +1 more source

Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito, Judith M. Burkart, Carel van Schaik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The earliest European Acheulean: new insights into the large shaped tools from the late Early Pleistocene site of Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona, Spain) [PDF]

, 2023
Andreu Ollé, Diego Lombao, Lena Asryan, Paula García-Medrano, Adrián Arroyo, Juan Luis Fernández‐Marchena, Görkem Cenk Yeşilova, Isabel Cáceres, Rosa Huguet, Lucía López‐Polín, Antonio Pineda, Antonio García‐Tabernero, Darío Fidalgo, Antonio Rosas, Palmira Saladié, Josep Vallverdú   +15 more
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Geological processes shaping freshwater biodiversity: a synthesis of global evidence

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent genomic data highlight the key roles of geological processes in shaping the diversification and biogeography of freshwater lineages. Specifically, physical processes such as tectonic uplift, erosion, glaciation, lake formation, and sea‐level fluctuation contribute extensively to the evolution of biotic diversity within and among ...
Jonathan M. Waters, Christopher P. Burridge, David Craw, James S. Albert   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

NEW PLEISTOCENE FISSURE-FILLING DEPOSITS FROM THE HYBLEAN PLATEAU (SOUTH EASTERN SICILY)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2017
On the Hyblean Plateau (south eastern Sicily) at Contrada Cimillà, south west of Ragusa, the infillings of a karstic cavity on the carbonatic Ragusa platform has yielded abundant Pleistocene mammal bones.
LAURA BONFIGLIO, GIOVANNI DI STEFANO, GIANNI INSACCO, ANTONELLA C. MARRA   +3 more
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Optimal mud pressure design using nonlinear failure criteria for wellbores in shaley sedimentary reservoir

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
The present study uses the Modified Mohr‐Coulomb true‐triaxial failure criterion (MMC_TT), which predicts the strength of rock better than the MGC criterion in laboratory true‐triaxial tests to overcome the limitations. Moreover, based on the data from previously published five vertical wells in the Krishna‐Godavari basin (K‐G basin), an empirical ...
Ravindra K. Burnwal, Aditya Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal Sea Surface Temperatures from Mercenaria spp. During the Plio-Pleistocene: Oxygen Isotope Versus Clumped Isotope Paleothermometers

Geosciences
The Mid-Piacenzian Warm Interval (MPWI) is marked by warmer temperatures and higher atmospheric CO2 levels than today, making it an analogue for late-21st-century-warming, whereas the early Pleistocene cooling is more like today.
Garrett F. N. Braniecki, Donna Surge, Ethan G. Hyland   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stratigraphy and development of the Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene Hawke’s Bay forearc basin [PDF]

, 2004
A Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentary succession about 2 500 m thick in the Hawke’s Bay forearc basin is the focus of a basin analysis. The area under investigation covers 3 500 km2 of western and central Hawke’s Bay.
Bland, Kyle J., Kamp, Peter J.J., Nelson, Campbell S.   +2 more
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Tracing the origins and evolution of nymphalid butterflies (Lepidoptera) in the Atlantic Forest

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding the relative roles of diversification and dispersal is key to explaining large‐scale biogeographical patterns. Although both processes are known to shape biodiversity, their relative contributions remain understudied for many organisms. Here, we examine how these processes have jointly contributed to the exceptional diversity and endemism
Mar Repullés, Nicolas Chazot, Leidys Murillo‐ Ramos, Marianne Espeland, Karina Lucas Silva‐ Brandão, Alexandre Antonelli, André Victor Lucci Freitas, Pável Matos‐ Maraví   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source