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Ostensive communication in great apes: The evolution of Gricean intent

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
I discuss the evolution of ostensive behaviours (behaviours that display the communicative intent to influence others through the perception of signals and actions addressed to them). Ostensive communication evolved out of evolutionary adaptations to the challenges and opportunities created by the evolutionary scenario of the meeting of ...
Juan Carlos Gómez
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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive‐inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a specific form of representational communication, symbolic depictions via spatio‐temporal arrangements of objects, can be inferred without attributing ...
Nima Mussavifard, Gergely Csibra
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Mother of the Nation? The Digital Appropriation of Shanidar Z in Kurdish and Regional Identity Politics

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
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Papers from the British Academy Lucy to Language: Archaeology of the Social Brain. Seminar Series on Palaeolithic Visual Display.

, 2012
ContentsThe Importance of Conveying Visual Information in Acheulean Society. The Background to the Visual Display HypothesisDr John McNabb, Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO), Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton ...
Grove, Matt, Hodgson, Derek, McNabb, John, Cole, James, Coward, Fiona   +4 more
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WHAT ONCE WAS SHALL BE AGAIN: PALAEOLITHIC BIFACES AT THE NEOLITHIC SITE OF GIV'AT RABI EAST

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary Giv'at Rabi East is a Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site located in northern Israel, interpreted as a flint workshop. One area has been spatially identified as a ‘biface locality’; it is characterized by the presence of finished axes and preforms alongside débitage. Interestingly, Acheulean bifaces have also been recovered from this area.
Ella Assaf
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“Is This Edible Anyway?” The Impact of Culture on the Evolution (and Devolution) of Mushroom Knowledge

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
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Environmental Context of Hominin Foot Evolution

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 191, Issue 2, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study investigates the environmental contexts that influenced the evolution of hominin foot morphology, focusing on when, where, and under what conditions key synapomorphies evolved. We test whether shifts in ecological conditions are associated with changes in locomotor function.
Yeganeh Sekhavati, Thomas Cody Prang, David Strait   +2 more
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Unfused transverse foramen of the atlas vertebra in the Neandertal lineage fossils

The Anatomical Record, Volume 309, Issue 10, Page 2989-2997, October 2026.
Abstract In anatomically modern humans, the atlas can display an unfused transverse foramen (UTF) but currently the presence of UTF in the Neandertal lineage is uncertain due to a scarcity of prevalence studies and no exhaustive record of its presence throughout the entire hominin fossil record.
Asier Gómez‐Olivencia, Mikel Arlegi, Juan José Valenzuela‐Fuenzalida, Mathias Orellana‐Donoso, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Juan A. Sanchis‐Gimeno   +5 more
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 5, Page 2214-2239, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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A Genetic Risk Variant Associated With the Risk of Primary Biliary Cholangitis Is Inherited From Neanderthals

Liver International, Volume 46, Issue 10, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) is an autoimmune cholangiopathy with polygenic architecture and unknown aetiology. Evidence links Neanderthal‐derived genetic variants to autoimmune conditions; however, their contribution to PBC susceptibility remains unexplored.
Alessio Gerussi, Chiara Caime, Harold Wang, Heather J. Cordell, George F. Mells, Richard N. Sandford, David E. Jones, Gideon Hirschfield, Katherine A. Siminovitch, M. Eric Gershwin, Brian D. Juran, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Angela Cheung, Mariza de Andrade, Aris Baras, Konstantinos N. Lazaridis, Rosanna Asselta, Pietro Invernizzi, Manuela Sironi, Sriram Sankararaman, Canadian‐US PBC Consortium, UK‐PBC Consortium, James J. Fryett, Rebecca Darlay, Steven Flack, Ann Spicer, Victoria L. Mulcahy, Richard Sturgess, Christopher Healey, Andrew Yeoman, Anton Vj Gunasekera, Paul Kooner, Kapil Kapur, V. Sathyanarayana, Yiannis Kallis, Javaid Subhani, Rory Harvey, Roger McCorry, Paul Rooney, David Ramanaden, Richard Evans, Thiriloganathan Mathialahan, Jaber Gasem, Christopher Shorrock, Mahesh Bhalme, Paul Southern, Jeremy A. Tibble, David A. Gorard, Susan Jones, Brijesh Srivastava, Matthew R. Foxton, Carole E. Collins, David Elphick, Mazn Karmo, Francisco Porras‐Perez, Michael Mendall, Tom Yapp, Minesh Patel, Roland Ede, Joanne Sayer, James Jupp, Neil Fisher, Martyn J. Carter, Konrad Koss, Jayshri Shah, Andrzej Piotrowicz, Glyn Scott, Charles Grimley, Ian R. Gooding, Simon Williams, Judith Tidbury, Guan Lim, Kuldeep Cheent, Sass Levi, Dina Mansour, Matilda Beckley, Coral Hollywood, Terry Wong, Richard Marley, John Ramage, Harriet M. Gordon, Jo Ridpath, Theodore Ngatchu, Vijay Paul Bob Grover, Ray G. Shidrawi, George Abouda, L. Corless, Mark Narain, Ian Rees, Ashley Brown, Simon Taylor‐Robinson, Joy Wilkins, Leonie Grellier, Paul Banim, Debasish Das, Michael A. Heneghan, Howard Curtis, Helen C. Matthews, Faiyaz Mohammed, Mark Aldersley, Raj Srirajaskanthan, Giles Walker, Alistair McNair, Amar Sharif, Sambit Sen, George Bird, Martin I. Prince, Geeta Prasad, Paul Kitchen, Adrian Barnardo, Chirag Oza, Nurani N. Sivaramakrishnan, Prakash Gupta, Amir Shah, Chris Dj Evans, Subrata Saha, Katharine Pollock, Peter Bramley, Ashis Mukhopadhya, Stephen T. Barclay, Natasha McDonald, Andrew J. Bathgate, Kelvin Palmer, John F. Dillon, Simon M. Rushbrook, Robert Przemioslo, Chris McDonald, Andrew Millar, Cheh Tai, Stephen Mitchell, Jane Metcalf, Syed Shaukat, Mary Ninkovic, Udi Shmueli, Andrew Davis, Asifabbas Naqvi, Tom Jw Lee, Stephen Ryder, Jane Collier, Howard Klass, Matthew E. Cramp, Nichols Sharer, Richard Aspinall, Deb Ghosh, Andrew C. Douds, Jonathan Booth, Earl Williams, Hyder Hussaini, John Christie, Steven Mann, Douglas Thorburn, Aileen Marshall, Imran Patanwala, Aftab Ala, Julia Maltby, Ray Matthew, Chris Corbett, Sam Vyas, Saket Singhal, Dermot Gleeson, Sharat Misra, Jeff Butterworth, Keith George, Tim Harding, Andrew Douglass, Harriet Mitchison, Simon Panter, Jeremy Shearman, Gary Bray, Michael Roberts, Graham Butcher, Daniel Forton, Zahid Mahmood, Matthew Cowan, Debashis Das, Chin Lye Ch'ng, Mesbah Rahman, Gregory C. A. Whatley, Emma Wesley, Aditya Mandal, Sanjiv Jain, Stephen P. Pereira, Mark Wright, Palak Trivedi, Fiona H. Gordon, Esther Unitt, Altaf Palejwala, Andrew Austin, Vishwaraj Vemala, Allister Grant, Andrew D. Higham, Alison Brind, Ray Mathew, Mark Cox, Subramaniam Ramakrishnan, Alistair King, Simon Whalley, Jocelyn Fraser, S. J. Thomson, Andrew Bell, Voi Shim Wong, Richard Kia, Ian Gee, Richard Keld, Rupert Ransford, James Gotto, Charles Millson, Italian PBC Genetics Study Group, Andrea Affronti, Maurizia Brunetto, Barbara Coco, Giancarlo Spinzi, Gianfranco Elia, Carlo Ferrari, Ana Lleo, Luigi Muratori, Paolo Muratori, Piero Portincasa, Agostino Colli, Savino Bruno, Guido Colloredo, Francesco Azzaroli, Pietro Andreone, MariaConsiglia Bragazzi, Domenico Alvaro, Vincenzo Cardinale, Nora Cazzagon, Annarosa Floreani, Cristina Rigamonti, Floriano Rosina, Marco Carbone, Laura Cristoferi, Marco Festa, Eugenia Nofit, Miki Scaravaglio, Daphne D'Amato, Federica Malinverno, Pietro Lampertico, Francesca Donato, Stefano Fagiuoli, Piero L. Almasio, Edoardo Giannini, Carmela Cursaro, Massimo Colombo, Luca Valenti, Luca Miele, Angelo Andriulli, Grazia A. Niro, Ignazio Grattagliano, Lorenzo Morini, Giovanni Casella, Maria Vinci, Pier Maria Battezzati, Andrea Crosignani, Massimo Zuin, Alberto Mattalia, Vincenza Calvaruso, Silvia Colombo, Antonio Benedetti, Marco Marzioni, Andrea Galli, Fabio Marra, Mirko Tarocchi, Antonio Picciotto, Filomena Morisco, Luca Fabris, Lory Saveria Crocè, Claudio Tiribelli, Pierluigi Toniutto, Mario Strazzabosco   +269 more
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