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Critique of Anthropology, 2009
■ Palaeoanthropology — the study of hominin evolution — has features which differentiate it from most other sciences. It has long been characterized by the announcement of a dramatic discovery of fossil hominin remains — often following a long and arduous process of field exploration.
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■ Palaeoanthropology — the study of hominin evolution — has features which differentiate it from most other sciences. It has long been characterized by the announcement of a dramatic discovery of fossil hominin remains — often following a long and arduous process of field exploration.
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Pliocene hominin biogeography and ecology
Journal of Human Evolution, 2015Australopithecus bahrelghazali, its origin and palaeobiology are not well understood. Reported from only one location some several thousand kilometres away from East African Pliocene hominin sites, it appears to have predominantly fed on C4 sources. Yet, it lacks the morphological adaptations of other primate C4 consumers like Paranthropus boisei and ...
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Environmental hypotheses of hominin evolution
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1998The study of human evolution has long sought to explain major adaptations and trends that led to the origin of Homo sapiens. Environmental scenarios have played a pivotal role in this endeavor. They represent statements or, more commonly, assumptions concerning the adaptive context in which key hominin traits emerged.
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The Evolution of Hominin Culture and Its Ancient Pre-hominin Foundations
2016This chapter examines the nature of culture in the broad evolutionary context of animal behavior, thus delineating the ancient foundations of the series of steps that eventuated in hominin culture. Focusing then on primates, further conclusions are drawn about the direct evolutionary antecedents of hominin culture in the most recent ancestors that ...
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Paleoneurology examines brain evolution through fossil endocasts, offering direct evidence of brain size, shape, and surface organization in extinct species. Digital approaches based on computed tomographic scans now enable detailed, non-invasive analyses, improving sulcal pattern detection and comparative studies with extant primates. Fossil endocasts
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2006
Palaeoanthropologists use many methods to work out the significance of newly discovered fossil evidence, but the first task is to assign hominin fossils to a taxon. After that researchers work out that taxon’s relationships with other fossil and living taxa, and then they infer the behaviours and habitat preferences of the taxon.
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Palaeoanthropologists use many methods to work out the significance of newly discovered fossil evidence, but the first task is to assign hominin fossils to a taxon. After that researchers work out that taxon’s relationships with other fossil and living taxa, and then they infer the behaviours and habitat preferences of the taxon.
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Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis
Behavioral and Brain SciencesAbstract The target article explores material culture datasets from three African forager groups. After demonstrating that these modern, contemporary human populations would leave scant evidence of symbolic behaviour or material complexity, it cautioned against using material culture as a barometer for human cognition in the deep past.
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