Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution. [PDF]
Nat Geosci, 2022 Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the lack of continuous palaeoenvironmental records from one of the ...
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Archaeological evidence for thinking about possibilities in hominin evolution. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 The emergence of the ability to think about future possibilities must have played an influential role in human evolution, driving a range of foresightful behaviours, including preparation, communication and technological innovation.
Langley MC, Suddendorf T.
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The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 The most profound shift in the African hydroclimate of the last 1 million years occurred around 300 thousand years (ka) ago. This change in African hydroclimate is manifest as an east-west change in moisture balance that cannot be fully explained through
Gosling WD, Scerri EML, Kaboth-Bahr S.
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Early Hominin Dispersal across the Qinling Mountains, China, during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
Land, 2023 The Qinling Mountain Range (QMR), where more than 500 hominin fossils and Paleolithic sites have been preserved, was a major center of hominin evolution and settlement and an important link for the hominin migration and dispersal between the north and ...
Xiaoqi Guo +4 more
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Evolution of Spinopelvic Alignment in Hominins [PDF]
The Anatomical Record, 2017 ABSTRACTSpinopelvic alignment refers to the interaction between pelvic orientation, spinal curvatures, and the line of gravity. In a healthy modern human, this alignment is characterized by reciprocal curves/orientation of the sacrum, lumbar lordosis, thoracic kyphosis, and cervical lordosis.
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Flip through scientific textbooks illustrating ideas about human evolution or visit any number of museums of natural history and you will notice an abundance of reconstructions attempting to depict the appearance of ancient hominins.
Ryan M. Campbell +4 more
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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 +2 more
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Earliest archaeological evidence of persistent hominin carnivory. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The emergence of lithic technology by ≈ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) is often interpreted as a correlate of increasingly recurrent hominin acquisition and consumption of animal remains.
Joseph V Ferraro +11 more
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Language evolution to revolution: the leap from rich-vocabulary non-recursive communication system to recursive language 70,000 years ago was associated with acquisition of a novel component of imagination, called Prefrontal Synthesis, enabled by a mutation that slowed down the prefrontal cortex maturation simultaneously in two or more children – the Romulus and Remus hypothesis [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2019 There is an overwhelming archeological and genetic evidence that modern speech apparatus was acquired by hominins by 600,000 years ago. On the other hand, artifacts signifying modern imagination, such as (1) composite figurative arts, (2) bone needles ...
Andrey Vyshedskiy
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Immature remains are critical for understanding maturational processes in hominin species as well as for interpreting changes in ontogenetic development in hominin evolution.
Debra R Bolter +3 more
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