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Through Time and Across Traits: Evaluating Explanations of Human Evolution. [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT We argue that current explanatory practice misses two situations that can arise in any lineage, not only ours. The first is dynamic: traits continue changing in one direction when a lineage's own niche construction keeps enlarging the problem it faces.
Ben-Dor M, Barkai R.
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eLifeExplorations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising Star cave system have yielded some of the earliest evidence of a mortuary practice in hominins. Because the evidence is attributable to the small-brained Homo naledi, these analyses call into question ...
Agustín Fuentes +5 more
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Oldest evidence of tool making hominins in a grassland-dominated ecosystem. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Major biological and cultural innovations in late Pliocene hominin evolution are frequently linked to the spread or fluctuating presence of C(4) grass in African ecosystems. Whereas the deep sea record of global climatic change provides indirect evidence
Thomas W Plummer +7 more
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Carnivoran remains from the Malapa hominin site, South Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Recent discoveries at the new hominin-bearing deposits of Malapa, South Africa, have yielded a rich faunal assemblage associated with the newly described hominin taxon Australopithecus sediba.
Brian F Kuhn +4 more
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Palaeoproteomic Deconvolution of Physical and Genetic Collagen Mixtures
Advanced Science, EarlyView.ClassiCOL_v2 uses a novel “peptide patching” framework that treats any collagen sample as a patchwork of peptide sequences derived from phylogenetically related species. This allows the algorithm to simultaneously resolve two previously intractable problems: multi‐species samples and/or database deficiencies.
Ian Engels +12 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Hominin footprints were recently discovered at Matalascañas (Huelva; South of Iberian Peninsula). They were dated thanks to a previous study in deposits of the Asperillo cliff to 106 ± 19 ka, Upper Pleistocene, making Neandertals the most likely track ...
Eduardo Mayoral +8 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The oval window (OW) is an opening connecting the inner and middle ear. Its area has been shown to consistently scale with body mass (BM) in primates, and has been used alongside semi‐circular canal (SCC) size to differentiate Homo sapiens and fossil hominins, including Paranthropus robustus.
Ruy Fernandez, José Braga
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Scientific ReportsTechnological innovation has been crucial in the evolution of our lineage, with tool use and production linked to complex cognitive processes. While previous research has examined the cognitive demands of early stone toolmaking, the neurocognitive ...
Simona Affinito +4 more
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Palaeoanthropology and the study of pre-adult fossil remains
Annals of Human BiologyContext This review paper captures the topics and discussions during a workshop held in April 2023 in Minden, Nevada, USA regarding the study of pre-adult hominin fossil specimens.Objective Perspectives from diverse academic fields were merged to ...
Debra R. Bolter +15 more
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The Internal, External and Extended Microbiomes of Hominins
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The social structure of primates has recently been shown to influence the composition of their microbiomes. What is less clear is how primate microbiomes might in turn influence their social behavior, either in general or with particular reference to ...
Robert R. Dunn +6 more
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