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Futures of Transit Work: Contesting Devaluation and Neoliberal Automation in Bus Transit
Anthropology of Work Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, July 2026.ABSTRACT Being a bus operator has long meant access to middle class wages, quality benefits, and union membership, forms of security increasingly rare amid growing precarity. But transit is in trouble. In the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic and decades of disinvestment, bus operators face mounting time pressure, frequent violence, and eroding job ...
Hunter Akridge, Sarah E. Fox
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Hominin Brain Evolution – New Century, New Directions [PDF]
, 2004 The study of hominin brain evolution focuses on the interiors of fossilized braincases. Applications of recent three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques for visualizing and measuring »virtual endocasts«
Dean Falk, Falk, Dean
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Boreas, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 866-884, July 2026.The Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. The basin comprises several hundred metres of Plio‐Pleistocene sediments alternating between clastics and lignites.
Ines J. E. Bludau +13 more
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Xujiayao Homo: A New Form of Large Brained Hominin in Eastern Asia
PaleoAnthropologyXujiayao, located in northern China, is an important paleoanthropological site because it dates to the late Middle Pleistocene (~200 ka - ~160 ka) and has a combination of hominin fossils, archaeology, and other vertebrate faunal traces.
Xiujie Wu, Christopher J Bae
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PaleoAnthropologyOver the past three decades, a new picture of our own ancestral past has emerged through the elucidation of the complex genetic relationships between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans by the direct analysis of ancient hominin genomes.
Frido Welker +6 more
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Scientific ReportsTechnological innovation has been crucial in the evolution of our lineage, with tool use and production linked to complex cognitive processes. While previous research has examined the cognitive demands of early stone toolmaking, the neurocognitive ...
Simona Affinito +4 more
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Did Morality First Evolve in Homo erectus?
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2016 With findings from cognitive science, neuroscience, information science, and paleoanthropology, an anthropologist and astronomer-priest team take a new look at the nature of morality, and suggest parameters that are often very different from the ...
Margaret Boone Rappaport +1 more
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The sexual selection of hominin bipedalism
Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 In this article, I advance a novel hypothesis on the evolution of hominin bipedalism. I begin by arguing extensively for how the transition to bipedalism must have been problematic for hominins during the Neogene.
Michael T Dale
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