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New dating of the Matalascañas footprints provides new evidence of the Middle Pleistocene (MIS 9-8) hominin paleoecology in southern Europe

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, Jérémy Duveau, Ana Santos, Antonio Rodríguez Ramírez, Juan A. Morales, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Jorge Rivera-Silva, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez   +8 more
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The morphology of the oval window in Paranthropus robustus compared to humans and other modern primates

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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Exploring the cognitive underpinnings of early hominin stone tool use through an experimental EEG approach

Scientific Reports
Technological 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, Brienna Eteson, Lourdes Tamayo Cáceres, Elena Theresa Moos, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis   +4 more
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Palaeoanthropology and the study of pre-adult fossil remains

Annals of Human Biology
Context 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, Noel Cameron, Christopher A. Wolfe, Julia C. Boughner, Patrick Mahoney, Lawrence Schell, Tesla A. Monson, Keneiloe Molopyane, Lee Berger, Robin Bernstein, Steven E. Churchill, Sarah Elton, John Hawks, Angeline B. Leece, Jill Pruetz, Kyra E. Stull   +15 more
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The effectiveness of using carbonate isotope measurements of body tissues to infer diet in human evolution: Evidence from wild western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)* [PDF]

, 2015
Changes in diet throughout hominin evolution have been linked with important evolutionary changes. Stable carbon isotope analysis of inorganic apatite carbonate is the main isotopic method used to reconstruct fossil hominin diets; to test its ...
Boesch, Christophe, Richards, M. ; https://orcid.org/, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Fahy, Geraldine, Fahy, G. ; https://orcid.org/, Richards, Michael P., Boesch, C. ; https://orcid.org/, Hublin, J. ; https://orcid.org/   +7 more
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New techniques for old bones: Morphometric and diffeomorphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Reilingen and Ehringsdorf Neandertals

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli, Julia Diez‐Valero, Ignacio Martínez, Rolf Quam, Brian A. Keeling, Nicole M. Webb, Mercedes Conde‐Valverde   +6 more
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Looking for the origins of the human brain: The role of South Africa in the history of palaeoneurology

South African Journal of Science
In 1925, Raymond Arthur Dart published his description and interpretations of the ‘Taung Child’ in the journal Nature, including a description of the natural brain endocast associated with the face and mandible.
Amélie Beaudet, Edwin de Jager, Mirriam Tawane, Brendon Billings   +3 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, Robert R. Dunn, Katherine R. Amato, Elizabeth A. Archie, Mimi Arandjelovic, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Lauren M. Nichols   +6 more
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New hominin dental remains from the ∼2.04–1.95 Ma Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa

Annals of Human Biology, 2023
Background The Drimolen Palaeocave site is situated within the UNESCO Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa World Heritage Area and has yielded numerous hominin fossils since its discovery in 1992.
A. B. Leece, J. M. Martin, S. Baker, C. Wilson, D. S. Strait, G. T. Schwartz, A. I. R. Herries   +6 more
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Integrating whole‐bone and regional analyses to understand human scapular growth

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates ontogenetic changes in human scapular morphology using three‐dimensional geometric morphometrics with whole‐bone and region‐specific analyses. The aim is to evaluate whether the scapula follows a regular developmental pattern and whether its functionally distinct components, the scapular spine (SS) and glenoid fossa ...
Azahara Salazar‐Fernández, José Miguel Carretero, Laura Rodríguez, Rebeca García‐González   +3 more
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