Chewing on the trees: Constraintsand adaptation in the evolution of the primate mandible [PDF]
, 2015 Chewing on different food types is a demanding biological function. The classic assumption in studying the shape of feeding apparatuses is that animals are what they eat, meaning that adaptation to different food items accounts for most of their ...
Adams +57 more
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Human neuromaturation, juvenile extreme energy liability, and adult cognition/cooperation [PDF]
, 2012 Human childhood and adolescence is the period in which adult cognitive competences (including those that create the unique cooperativeness of humans) are acquired.
John Skoyles
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Dental functional morphology predicts the scaling of chewing rate in mammals [PDF]
, 2018 How food intake and mastication scale to satisfy the metabolic needs of mammals has been the subject of considerable scientific debate. Existing theory suggests that the negative allometric scaling of metabolic rate with body mass is compensated by a ...
Fortelius, Mikael, Zliobaite, Indre
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The prion protein and New World primate phylogeny [PDF]
, 2004 The PrPC prion protein contains 250 amino acids with some variation among species and is expressed in several cell types. PrPC is converted to PrPSc by a post-translational process in which it acquires amino acid sequences of three-dimensional ...
SCHNEIDER, Horacio +3 more
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Gestation and the evolution of vertical stance bipedal humans [PDF]
, 2011 During mammalian gestation a change in maternal stance alters the velocities of maternal blood flows and results in a changed rate of delivery and distribution of nutrients required to form the bone and tissue in various parts of a developing foetus. The
D.S. Robertson
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The biomechanical importance of the scaphoid-centrale fusion during simulated knuckle-walking and its implications for human locomotor evolution [PDF]
, 2020 © 2020, The Author(s). Inferring the locomotor behaviour of the last common ancestor (LCA) of humans and African apes is still a divisive issue. An African great-ape-like ancestor using knuckle-walking is still the most parsimonious hypothesis for the ...
Chamberlain, A.T. +4 more
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Убежищестроительная гипотеза раннего антропосоциогенеза: за и против [PDF]
, 2005 Проанализированы и сопоставлены возможности "охотничьей", "трудовой" и "убежищестроительной" гипотез Антропосоциогенеза - в объяснении причин и феноменов эволюции Homo-вида, Homo-бытия и Homo-отношений.Проаналізовані та зіставлені можливості ...
Чудомех, В.Н.
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Investigadors de l'ICP de la UAB descriuen un nou homínid [PDF]
, 2009 Investigadors de l'Institut Català de Paleontologia (ICP) de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, dirigits pel professor Salvador Moyà-Solà, publiquen aquesta setmana a la prestigiosa revista científica Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
Moyà Solà, Salvador
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The effect of foot posture on capacity to apply free moments to the ground: implications for fighting performance in great apes [PDF]
, 2017 In contrast to most other primates, great apes have feet in which the heel supports body weight during standing, walking and running. One possible advantage of this plantigrade foot posture is that it may enhance fighting performance by increasing the ...
Christopher Cunningham, David R. Carrier
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 4, April 2025.ABSTRACT Objectives The functional interpretation of postcranial remains of Middle Miocene great apes from Europe (dryopithecines) suggests a combination of quadrupedalism and orthograde behaviors without modern analogs. We provide further insights based on an isolated dryopithecine talus (IPS85037) from the Middle Miocene (11.7 Ma) Abocador de Can ...
Oriol Monclús‐Gonzalo +7 more
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