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Hominin footprints from Early Pleistocene deposits at Happisburgh, UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The research was funded by the Calleva Foundation as part of the Pathways to Ancient Britain Project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Investigations at ...
Simon A. Parfitt   +66 more
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Ecological drivers of Pleistocene Hominin and Faunal dispersal across Southeast Asia (EPHSEA 2022) workshop [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Southeast Asia is critical for broad studies of human evolution because the region yields one of the highest diversities of Pleistocene hominin species.
Suraprasit, Kantapon, Louys, Julien
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Postcranial evidence of late Miocene hominin bipedalism in Chad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
International audienceBipedal locomotion is one of the key adaptations that define the hominin clade. Evidence of bipedalism is known from postcranial remains of late Miocene hominins as early as 6 million years ago (Ma) in eastern Africa1,2,3,4 ...
Moussa, Abderamane   +8 more
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Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-year-old Hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate fossils in several African archaeological assemblages demonstrate a significant level of ...
Uribelarrea David   +64 more
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The Chronology of Early Human Settlement in Three Gorges Region, China—Contribution of Coupled Electron Spin Resonance and Uranium-Series Dating Method

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The Three Gorges region (TGR) located in the geographic center of China, is a transition zone between mountain and plain areas, and a probable migration corridor for hominins and other mammals between South and North China.
Fei Han   +8 more
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Homo naledi and Pleistocene hominin evolution in subequatorial Africa

open access: yeseLife, 2017
New discoveries and dating of fossil remains from the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, have strong implications for our understanding of Pleistocene human evolution in Africa.
Lee R Berger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bringing trees back into the human evolutionary story: recent evidence from extant great apes

open access: yesCommunicative & Integrative Biology, 2023
Hypotheses have historically linked the emergence and evolution of defining human characteristics such as bipedal walking to ground-dwelling, envisioning our earliest ancestors as living in treeless savannahs (i.e.
Rhianna C. Drummond-Clarke
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting Archaic Hominin Phenotypes from Genomic Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Ancient DNA provides a powerful window into the biology of extant and extinct species, including humans' closest relatives: Denisovans and Neanderthals.
Colbran, Laura L   +2 more
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The many mysteries of Homo naledi

open access: yeseLife, 2015
More than 1500 fossils from the Rising Star cave system in South Africa have been assigned to a new human species, Homo naledi, which displays a unique combination of primitive and derived traits throughout the skeleton.
Chris Stringer
doaj   +1 more source

Emerging Adulthood, a Pre-adult Life-History Stage

open access: yesFrontiers in Endocrinology, 2020
The duration of human maturation has been underestimated; an additional 4–6-year pre-adult period of “emerging adulthood,” should be included in models of human maturation.
Ze′ev Hochberg, Melvin Konner
doaj   +1 more source

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