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“Is This Edible Anyway?” The Impact of Culture on the Evolution (and Devolution) of Mushroom Knowledge

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
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Seasonal resource availability and dietary selection in baboons: Implications for early hominin dietary inference

Quaternary Environments and Humans
Selective pressures related to resource availability, nutritional constraints, and foraging costs have played an important role in shaping primate and early hominin dietary strategies.
Susanne Krüger, Christine Hertler, Angela A. Bruch, Friedemann Schrenk   +3 more
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Homo Memorabiliaxis: Souvenirs and the Evolution of Autobiographical Memory and Self

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Humans routinely keep souvenirs objects retained for the memories they evoke, yet the evolutionary and cognitive consequences of mnemonic collecting remain unclear. Existing discussions of curated objects concentrate on later prehistory and modern humans and view such objects at the social level, as carriers of shared cultural meaning or as ...
Ran Barkai, Ella Assaf, Bar Efrati, Tal Simon, Liad Mudrik, Yoav Ram   +5 more
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Patterns of interspecific variation in labial microarchitecture among anthropoid primates and the evolution of the hominin lips

The Anatomical Record, Volume 309, Issue 11, Page 3276-3296, November 2026.
Comparative histological and semi‐automated image analysis of primate lips: Masson's trichrome‐stained sagittal sections were segmented to quantify the connective tissue, adipose, and muscular components, enabling interspecific comparisons of labial architecture.
Liat Rotenstreich, Kfir Eliyahu, Nir Edery, Lior Moss, Saleem Eben Bari, Assaf Marom   +5 more
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A Ticklish Affair: Tickling Impacts Play Features in Bonobos

American Journal of Primatology, Volume 88, Issue 10, October 2026.
The image sequences show two mother–offspring tickling interactions in bonobos. (a) A female tickles her son's belly with her hands; he shows a full play face and grasps her finger in a play shelter response. (b) A female tickles her daughter with her mouth; the infant shows a full play face. ABSTRACT Heavy tickling has been reported only in humans and
Elisa Demuru, Chiara Andreozzi, Edoardo Collarini, Marta Panunzi, Jean‐Pascal Guéry, Giada Cordoni, Ivan Norscia   +6 more
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Hominin cognitive and behavioural complexity in the Pleistocene: assessment through identity, intentionality and visual display

, 2011
The Social Brian Hypothesis predicts the cognitive ability of hominin species by utilising estimated brain and group sizes in relation to an ordinal scale of cognitive complexity expressed as orders of intentionality.
Cole, James Nathan
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Environmental Context of Hominin Foot Evolution

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 191, Issue 2, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study investigates the environmental contexts that influenced the evolution of hominin foot morphology, focusing on when, where, and under what conditions key synapomorphies evolved. We test whether shifts in ecological conditions are associated with changes in locomotor function.
Yeganeh Sekhavati, Thomas Cody Prang, David Strait   +2 more
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Constancy of Sexual Dimorphism in the Infracranial Skeleton

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 191, Issue 2, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Sexual dimorphism in the human infracranial skeleton has been extensively studied, yet its structural organization across skeletal regions remains incompletely characterized at a global scale. Using a geographically diverse sample of 3177 individuals of known sex (1219 females; 1958 males) drawn from five documented skeletal collections, this ...
Siam Knecht, Fréderic Santos, Sacha Kacki, Gabriele Krüger, Leandi Liebenberg, Lucie Biehler‐Gomez, Cristina Cattaneo, Bérénice Chevalier, Alexandra Boucherie, Charlotte Boyer, Trenton Holliday, Aline Thomas, Sébastien Villotte   +12 more
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Sticks and Stones: Hand Preference and Grip in Wild Chimpanzee Tool‐Use

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 191, Issue 2, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives Humans exhibit a near‐universal right‐handed bias, linked to hemispheric brain lateralization, yet its evolutionary origins remain unclear. Wild chimpanzees, one of our closest living relatives, show diverse tool‐use behaviors and substantial variability, providing an appropriate context to investigate the emergence and functional ...
Ammie K. Kalan, Mimi Arandjelovic, Hjalmar Kuehl, Skye Bartel‐Ens, Amy Christensen, Julia Whelan, Anthony Agbor, Paula Dieguez, Juan Lapuente, Amelia C. Meier, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis   +10 more
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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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