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Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Persistent Hominin Carnivory [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The emergence of lithic technology by ≈ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) is often interpreted as a correlate of increasingly recurrent hominin acquisition and consumption of animal remains.
Joseph V Ferraro, Briana Pobiner, James S Oliver   +2 more
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Immature remains and the first partial skeleton of a juvenile Homo naledi, a late Middle Pleistocene hominin from South Africa

PLoS ONE, 2020
Immature remains are critical for understanding maturational processes in hominin species as well as for interpreting changes in ontogenetic development in hominin evolution.
Debra R Bolter, Marina Elliott, John Hawks   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Multi-isotope analysis reconstructs termite feeding in chimpanzees [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Multi-isotope analyses of extant and extinct animals provide key insights into dietary ecology. Here, we examined mineral-bound nitrogen isotopes alongside carbonate carbon and oxygen stable isotope ratios in tooth enamel from sympatric chimpanzees ...
Sven Brömme, Vicky M. Oelze, Alfredo Martínez-García, Jennifer N. Leichliter, Gerald H. Haug, Hubert B. Vonhof, Fiona A. Stewart, Alex K. Piel, Tina Lüdecke   +8 more
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Early Hominin Dispersal across the Qinling Mountains, China, during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

Land, 2023
The Qinling Mountain Range (QMR), where more than 500 hominin fossils and Paleolithic sites have been preserved, was a major center of hominin evolution and settlement and an important link for the hominin migration and dispersal between the north and ...
Xiaoqi Guo, Xuefeng Sun, Huayu Lu, Shejiang Wang, Chengqiu Lu   +4 more
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When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Human brain size nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have decreased in volume since the end of the last Ice Age.
Jeremy M. DeSilva, Jeremy M. DeSilva, James F. A. Traniello, James F. A. Traniello, Alexander G. Claxton, Alexander G. Claxton, Alexander G. Claxton, Luke D. Fannin, Luke D. Fannin   +8 more
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The use of Z-scores to facilitate morphometric comparisons between African Plio-Pleistocene hominin fossils: An example of method

South African Journal of Science, 2022
South Africa and East Africa each have a rich palaeoanthropological heritage, but the taxonomy of fossil hominins from these regions is controversial. In this study, two morphometric methods related to the quantification of variability in morphology have
J. Francis Thackeray, Ottmar Kullmer
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Bipedal locomotion in zoo apes: Revisiting the hylobatian model for bipedal origins

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022
Bipedal locomotion is a hallmark of being human. Yet the body form from which bipedalism evolved remains unclear. Specifically, the positional behaviour (i.e. orthograde vs. pronograde) and the length of the lumbar spine (i.e. long and mobile vs.
Kyle H. Rosen, Caroline E. Jones, Jeremy M. DeSilva   +2 more
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Visual Depictions of Our Evolutionary Past: A Broad Case Study Concerning the Need for Quantitative Methods of Soft Tissue Reconstruction and Art-Science Collaborations

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Flip through scientific textbooks illustrating ideas about human evolution or visit any number of museums of natural history and you will notice an abundance of reconstructions attempting to depict the appearance of ancient hominins.
Ryan M. Campbell, Gabriel Vinas, Maciej Henneberg, Maciej Henneberg, Rui Diogo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Three-dimensional volumetric muscle reconstruction of the Australopithecus afarensis pelvis and limb, with estimations of limb leverage

Royal Society Open Science, 2023
To understand how an extinct species may have moved, we first need to reconstruct the missing soft tissues of the skeleton, which rarely preserve, with an understanding of segmental volume and muscular composition within the body.
Ashleigh L. A. Wiseman
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Examining the suitability of extant primates as models of hominin stone tool culture

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
Extant primates, especially chimpanzees, are often used as models for pre-modern hominin (henceforth: hominin) behaviour, anatomy and cognition. In particular, as hominin behaviour cannot be inferred from archaeological remains and artefacts alone ...
Elisa Bandini, Rachel A. Harrison, Alba Motes-Rodrigo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source