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Landscape Structures and Human Evolutionary Ecology: space, scale and environmental patterning in Africa

Internet Archaeology, 2015
Palaeoanthropologists and early prehistorians work hard to reconstruct ancient human-environment relationships and their influences on our lineage's ecology, biology and behaviour.
Isabelle C. Winder
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Fossil skulls reveal that blood flow rate to the brain increased faster than brain volume during human evolution [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2016
The evolution of human cognition has been inferred from anthropological discoveries and estimates of brain size from fossil skulls. A more direct measure of cognition would be cerebral metabolic rate, which is proportional to cerebral blood flow rate ...
Roger S. Seymour, Vanya Bosiocic, Edward P. Snelling   +2 more
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Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito, Judith M. Burkart, Carel van Schaik   +2 more
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"Two tribes": Handaxe shape variation shows distinct regional cultural groups in southeastern Britain between 424 000 and 374 000 BP

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White, Frederick Foulds, Aaron Rawlinson, Ceri Shipton, Rob Davis, Nick Ashton   +5 more
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Occurrence of Crocuta (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from a potential Middle Pleistocene site at Pirro Nord (Apricena, southern Italy)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Pirro Nord quarry has yielded evidence of one of the earliest hominin presences in western Europe, accompanied by an extremely rich and diverse collection of vertebrate remains, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and small and large mammals.
Alessio Iannucci, Dario Stefanelli, Jacopo Conti, Maria Marino, Raffaele Sardella   +4 more
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Synergistic Effect of the Cationic Peptide Hominin and a New Disinfectant Based on Isoquinoline on Formation of Biofilms in Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococci

Антибиотики и Химиотерапия, 2020
The growing threat of proliferation of biofilm-forming hospital strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci resistant to antibiotics determines the need for an urgent search for new effective antibacterial compounds, as well as the development of methods
L. I. Kononova, I. A. Pyankov, A. A. Smolyak, Yu. V. Shklyaev, V. P. Korobov   +4 more
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Expanding the Faunal Interpretation of the Cova Eirós (NW Iberia) Middle Paleolithic–Early Upper Paleolithic Record With ZooMS

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cova Eirós archaeopaleontological site preserves the most comprehensive archaeostratigraphic sequence in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, with an exceptionally rich record spanning from the Mousterian to the Upper Paleolithic. The extensive fragmentation of the faunal record and the rich taxonomic diversity at this site have limited the
Hugo Bal‐García, Samantha Brown, Iván Rey‐Rodríguez, Mikel Díaz‐Rodríguez, Carlos Fernández‐Rodríguez, Álvaro Ibáñez‐Encinas, Arturo de Lombera‐Hermida, Tania Mosquera‐Castro, Xosé Pedro Rodríguez‐Álvarez, Ramón Fábregas‐Valcarce   +9 more
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And then there was us Et puis nous sommes apparus

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In 1987, the academic conference ‘Origins and Dispersals of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives’ was held in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently referred to as the ‘Human Revolution’ conference, this meeting brought together the most prominent academics working in the field of human origins, including archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists,
Emma E. Bird, Julia Galway‐Witham, Chris Stringer   +2 more
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The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya Affinités morphologiques du crâne fossile de Kabua (Kenya)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Qingfeng Shao, Katerina Harvati   +7 more
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A morphometric analysis of hominin teeth attributed to Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo

South African Journal of Science, 2016
Teeth are the most common element in the fossil record and play a critical role in taxonomic assessments. Variability in extant hominoid species is commonly used as a basis to gauge expected ranges of variability in fossil hominin species. In this study,
Susan J. Dykes
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