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A new star rising: Biology and mortuary behaviour of Homo naledi

South African Journal of Science, 2015
Patrick S. Randolph-Quinney
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Xujiayao Homo: A New Form of Large Brained Hominin in Eastern Asia

PaleoAnthropology
Xujiayao, 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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Palaeoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations, to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution

PaleoAnthropology
Over 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, Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Leire Torres-Iglesias, Viridiana Villa-Islas, Louise Le Meillour, Zandra Fagernäs   +6 more
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Exploring the cognitive underpinnings of early hominin stone tool use through an experimental EEG approach

Scientific Reports
Technological 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, Brienna Eteson, Lourdes Tamayo Cáceres, Elena Theresa Moos, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis   +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, Christopher Corbally SJ   +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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What Is the Acheulean? [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
Moncel MH, Cucart-Mora C, Arzarello M, Ashton N, Baena J, Barsky D, de la Torre I, Galanidou N, García-Medrano P, Hertler C, Herzlinger G, Ingicco T, Li H, Ma D, Mosquera M, Ollé A, Pappu S, Pei S, Tian C, Wang W, Bae CJ.   +20 more
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Hominins [PDF]

, 2008
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Brain structure and function in Homo naledi. [PDF]

Brain Struct Funct
Cofran Z, Hurst S, Hawks J.
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No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Sun J, de la Torre I, Bibi F.
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