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The estimation and evolution of hominin body mass
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2023 AbstractBody mass is a critical variable in many hominin evolutionary studies, with implications for reconstructing relative brain size, diet, locomotion, subsistence strategy, and social organization. We review methods that have been proposed for estimating body mass from true and trace fossils, consider their applicability in different contexts, and ...
Christopher B. Ruff, Bernard A. Wood
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African ape carpal morphology is not too specialized to represent the ancestral hominin carpus. [PDF]
J AnatKnuckle walking is one hypothesized behavior of the Pan‐Homo last common ancestor. We analyzed carpal morphology, including Euclidean distances between behavioral pairs, to investigate whether the carpals of knuckle‐walking taxa appear relatively specialized.
Hunter LE +4 more
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, 2007 This paper uses changes in origination and extinction rates and species richness of eastern African carnivorans through time to discuss issues related to the evolution of hominin behavior.
Lewis, Margaret E., Werdelin, Lars,
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Testing for a facultative locomotor mode in the acquisition of archosaur bipedality [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Bipedal locomotion is a defining characteristic of humans and birds and has a profound effect on how these groups interact with their environment.
Luke R. Grinham +2 more
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Atlas of cortical sulcal imprints on Pan endocasts. [PDF]
J AnatThis comprehensive atlas documents the frequency, position, and variability of cortical sulcal imprints across 21 extant Pan endocasts, providing the first quantitative baseline for comparative paleoneurology. This atlas serves as a reference for distinguishing ancestral from derived features in hominin brain evolution.
de Jager EJ +6 more
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Paleoanthropology of cognition: an overview on Hominins brain evolution
Comptes Rendus. Biologies, 2022 Recent advances in neurobiology, paleontology, and paleogenetics allow us to associate changes in brain size and organization with three main “moments” of increased behavioral complexity and, more speculatively, language development. First, Australopiths display a significant increase in brain size relative to the great apes and an
Hublin, Jean-Jacques +1 more
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Hominin musical sound production: palaeoecological contexts and self domestication
Anthropological ReviewIn this article we seek to integrate theories of music origins and dance with hominin fossil anatomy and the paleoecological contexts of hominin evolution.
Gary Clark +4 more
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Lower Ilium Evolution in Apes and Hominins [PDF]
The Anatomical Record, 2017 ABSTRACTElucidating the pelvic morphology of the Pan‐Homo last common ancestor (LCA) is crucial for understanding ape and human evolution. The pelvis of Ardipithecus ramidus has been the basis of controversial interpretations of the LCA pelvis. In particular, it was proposed that the lower ilium became elongate independently in the orangutan and ...
Ashley S. Hammond, Sergio Almécija
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Human brain expansion during evolution is independent of fire control and cooking
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2016 What makes humans unique? This question has fascinated scientists and philosophers for centuries and it is still a matter of intense debate. Nowadays, human brain expansion during evolution has been acknowledged to explain our empowered cognitive ...
Alianda Maira Cornélio +5 more
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Teaching as evolutionary precursor to language
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 The central thesis of this article is that the evolution of teaching is one of the main factors that lead to increasingly complex communicative systems in the hominin species.
Peter Gärdenfors, Peter Gärdenfors
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