A spring forward for hominin evolution in East Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Groundwater is essential to modern human survival during drought periods. There is also growing geological evidence of springs associated with stone tools and hominin fossils in the East African Rift System (EARS) during a critical period for hominin ...
Mark O Cuthbert, Gail M Ashley
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Dynamics of green Sahara periods and their role in hominin evolution. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Astronomically forced insolation changes have driven monsoon dynamics and recurrent humid episodes in North Africa, resulting in green Sahara Periods (GSPs) with savannah expansion throughout most of the desert.
Juan C Larrasoaña +2 more
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Modelling the role of groundwater hydro-refugia in East African hominin evolution and dispersal [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Water is a fundamental resource, but its role in hominin evolution is not well explored. Here, the authors use a combination of groundwater, climate and agent-based models to show that groundwater availability may be critical to past patterns of ...
M. O. Cuthbert +6 more
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Measure, Then Show: Grasping Human Evolution Through an Inquiry-Based, Data-driven Hominin Skulls Lab. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Incomprehension and denial of the theory of evolution among high school students has been observed to also occur when teachers are not equipped to deliver a compelling case also for human evolution based on fossil evidence.
Chris N Bayer, Michael Luberda
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Rethinking Phylogeny and Ontogeny in Hominin Brain Evolution [PDF]
, 2012 Theories of hominin and human cognitive evolution have traditionally focused on the phylogeny of the human brain, and on comparisons of human and primate brains in relation to social or ecological variables.
Coward, Fiona
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Sterkfontein at 75: review of paleoenvironments, fauna, dating and archaeology from the hominin site of Sterkfontein (Gauteng Province, South Africa). [PDF]
, 2011 Seventy-five years after Robert Broom’s discovery of the first adult Australopithecus in 1936, the Sterkfontein Caves (Gauteng Province, South Africa) remains one of the richest and most informative fossil hominin sites in the world.
Reynolds, Sally C., Kibii, JM
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Hominin landscapes and co-evolutionary ecology: accommodating logical incoherence and complexity [PDF]
, 2012 Understanding primate (and human) evolutionary environments is a key goal of palaeoanthropology. The most recent contribution to this debate, the ‘tectonic landscape model’ (TLM) is the first to explicitly invoke either the spatial structure of ...
Winder, Isabelle Catherine
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The evolution of hominin ontogenies [PDF]
Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2010 Since the beginnings of paleoanthropology, immature fossil hominin specimens have marked important but highly contested cornerstones of research. Long deemed as not representative of a fossil species’ morphology, immature hominins are now in the center of scientific attention, and an increasing interest in evolutionary developmental questions has made ...
Zollikofer, C P E, Ponce de León, M S
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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.
Been, Ella +5 more
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Cytomegalovirus distribution and evolution in hominines [PDF]
Virus Evolution, 2019 Abstract Herpesviruses are thought to have evolved in very close association with their hosts. This is notably the case for cytomegaloviruses (CMVs; genus Cytomegalovirus) infecting primates, which exhibit a strong signal of co-divergence with their hosts. Some herpesviruses are however known to have crossed species barriers.
Sripriya Murthy +38 more
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