Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 3, Page 1463-1478, June 2026.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 +2 more
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Genetic assimilation in the evolution of hominin neuroplasticity
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2019 The discovery and popularisation of the study of different evolutionary processes outside the current evolutionary framework provide researchers of different areas with new tools to make progress in their field.
Luiz do Valle Miranda
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PhaseDancer: a novel targeted assembler of segmental duplications unravels the complexity of the human chromosome 2 fusion going from 48 to 46 chromosomes in hominin evolution. [PDF]
Genome Biol, 2023 Poszewiecka B +4 more
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Hominin evolution and diversity: a comparison of earlier-Middle and later-Middle Pleistocene hominin fossil variation in China. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Liu W, Athreya S, Xing S, Wu X.
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Interpersonal and Ideological Kindness: A Biocultural Approach [PDF]
, 2018 In accordance with Richard Dawkins’ materialist “selfish gene” theory of human behavior, altruism is a subject matter that is treated conservatively by biologists, whose understanding of the human version of altruism tends toward mutualistic and ...
Averitt-Hubbard, Sally
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The Ethical Life of Educational Policy: Physical Education Teachers as Phronimoi
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper explores the ethical dimension of educational policy. Policy‐as‐practice scholarship tends to emphasize teachers as purposeful agents involved in problem‐solving and the creative interpretation and reassembling of educational discourses.
Adriano De Francesco
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Language: The missing selection pressure
, 2017 Human beings are talkative. What advantage did their ancestors find in communicating so much? Numerous authors consider this advantage to be "obvious" and "enormous".
Dessalles, Jean-Louis
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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 249-258, June 2026.ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert +2 more
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Determination of linkage disequilibrium region suggests association of the ancient haplotype, hX with neural function [PDF]
, 2011 Modern human populations are known to contain "ancient haplotypes" that originated from archaic humans by hybridization. Some of them had been reported before the development of human genomic diversity databases, such as HapMap. Consequently,
Makoto Shimada, Tsutomu Kanasashi
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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 339-348, June 2026.ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
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