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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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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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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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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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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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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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