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Modulating Hunting Atmospheres: Mud and Material Flows Beyond the Kill

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 629-639, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article argues that hunting is not a bounded event but a materially redistributed atmosphere that extends beyond the kill and across field, truck, clothing, and home. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork with wild boar hunters in Uruguay, I show how mud, odors, blood, and bodily residues carry the sensory, affective, and material ...
Juan Martin Dabezies
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An updated age for the Xujiayao hominin from the Nihewan Basin,North China: Implications for Middle Pleistocene human evolution inEast Asia

, 2017
The Xujiayao site in the Nihewan Basin (North China) is one of the most important Paleolithic sites in East Asia. Twenty Homo fossils, which were previously assigned to an archaic Homo sapiens group, have been excavated along with more than 30,000 lithic
Xu,XW(Xu,Xinwen), Ao,Hong, Andrew P. Roberts, Liu,CR(Liu,Chunrui), Chun-Ru Liu, Hong Ao, Ao,H(Ao,Hong), Zhang,P(Zhang,Peng), Xinwen Xu, Peng Zhang, Roberts, Andrew P   +10 more
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Political Animals: To Live & Die in More‐Than‐Human Worlds

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 660-667, September 2026.
ABSTRACT What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations.
Luísa Reis‐Castro
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Novel Motor Behaviors and the Evolution of the Hominin Brain

, 2019
Brain size scales predictably with body size for most placental mammals. However, humans have brains that are about seven times larger than expected for their body size, with total brain volume being about 90% cerebrum and about10% cerebellum.
Miller, Shawn Dee
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Can the Archaeology of Manual Specialization Tell Us Anything About Language Evolution? A Survey of the State of Play [PDF]

, 2009
In this review and position paper we explore the neural substrates for manual specialization and their possible connection with language and speech. We focus on two contrasting hypotheses of the origins of language and manual specialization: the language-
Uomini, N, Steele, J
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Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) [PDF]

The Ararat Depression, at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia, spans Armenia, Turkey and Iran, providing a unique natural laboratory for studying landscape evolution, hominin lifeways and migration.
Gasparyan, B, Gasparyan, B., Rogall, D., Petrosyan, A, Malinsky-Buller, A., Arakelyan, D, Arakelyan, D., Lauer, T, Vainer, S, Pedraza, J., Haydosyan, H, Fenn, K, Karampaglidis, T, Vainer, S., Rogall, D, Oikonomou, I, Pedraza, J, Gevorgyan, H., Fenn, K., Malinsky-Buller, A, Gevorgyan, H, Lauer, T., Karampaglidis, T., Braucher, Regis, Braucher, R, Carrasco, R.M., Oikonomou, I., Haydosyan, H., Carrasco, RM, Petrosyan, A.   +29 more
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Frequency of arboreality is correlated with longer hand skeletons in Gorilla: Analysis of a new skeletal sample of Bwindi mountain gorillas

Journal of Anatomy, Volume 249, Issue 3, Page 544-564, September 2026.
Variation in arboreality across gorilla populations is associated with systematic differences in manual digital lengths. Using a new dataset of linear metrics from the Bwindi mountain gorillas, we quantify metacarpal and phalangeal lengths in eastern and western gorilla populations across all five rays. Consistent with quantified behavioral differences,
Elliot G. Greiner, Christopher B. Ruff, Charlotte King, Aventino Nkwasibwe, Thadee Muhire, Emmanuel Tibenda, Jason S. Massey, Juho‐Antti Junno, Rowan M. Sherwood, Jean Bosco Noheri, Fred Nizeyimana, Tierra Smiley Evans, Richard Muvunyi, Dennis Babaasa, Martha M. Robbins, Shannon C. McFarlin, Tracy L. Kivell   +16 more
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Evolution of primate social systems:implications for hominin social evolution

, 2014
Understanding hominin social evolution has long been bedevilled by the fact that we have no general theories of primate evolution. As a result, most attempts to reconstruct hominin social evolution have been, at best, speculative.
Opie, Kit, Nelson, Emma, Shultz, Susanne, Atkinson, Quentin, Dunbar, Robin   +4 more
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Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight

Experimental Physiology, Volume 111, Issue 9, Page 4015-4040, 1 September 2026.
Abstract Crewed interplanetary return missions that are on the planning horizon will take years, more than enough time for initiation and completion of a pregnancy. Pregnancy is viewed as a sequence of processes – fertilization, blastocyst formation, implantation, gastrulation, placentation, organogenesis, gross morphogenesis, birth and neonatal ...
Arun V. Holden
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Relatively open vegetation landscapes promoted early Pleistocene hominin evolution

Communications Earth & Environment
Vegetation structure and landscape openness are key ecological factors influencing human behavioural and cultural adaptation strategies. However, there is ongoing debate and lack of quantitative assessment about which vegetation landscape and openness ...
Baoshuo Fan, Yuecong Li, Fagang Wang, Jiaxing Yang, Zhen Zhang, Qinghai Xu, Qingzhen Hao, Yawen Ge, Bing Li, Deke Xu, Fei Xie, Chenglong Deng, Houyuan Lu   +12 more
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