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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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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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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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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Brain enlargement and dental reduction were not linked in hominin evolution. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 The large brain and small postcanine teeth of modern humans are among our most distinctive features, and trends in their evolution are well studied within the hominin clade.
Gómez-Robles A +4 more
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Early human speciation, brain expansion and dispersal influenced by African climate pulses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Early human evolution is characterised by pulsed speciation and dispersal events that cannot be explained fully by global or continental paleoclimate records. We propose that the collated record of ephemeral East African Rift System (EARS) lakes could be
Susanne Shultz, Mark Maslin
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Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment : pushing plant–hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene [PDF]
, 2015 The colonization of the human environment by plants, and the consequent evolution of domesticated forms is increasingly being viewed as a co-evolutionary plant–human process that occurred over a long time period, with evidence for the co-evolutionary ...
Kitchen, James +22 more
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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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