Hominin landscapes and co-evolutionary ecology: accommodating logical incoherence and complexity [PDF]
, 2012 Understanding primate (and human) evolutionary environments is a key goal of palaeoanthropology. The most recent contribution to this debate, the ‘tectonic landscape model’ (TLM) is the first to explicitly invoke either the spatial structure of ...
Winder, Isabelle Catherine
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The evolution of hominin ontogenies [PDF]
Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2010 Since the beginnings of paleoanthropology, immature fossil hominin specimens have marked important but highly contested cornerstones of research. Long deemed as not representative of a fossil species’ morphology, immature hominins are now in the center of scientific attention, and an increasing interest in evolutionary developmental questions has made ...
Zollikofer, C P E, Ponce de León, M S
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Evolution of Spinopelvic Alignment in Hominins [PDF]
The Anatomical Record, 2017 ABSTRACTSpinopelvic alignment refers to the interaction between pelvic orientation, spinal curvatures, and the line of gravity. In a healthy modern human, this alignment is characterized by reciprocal curves/orientation of the sacrum, lumbar lordosis, thoracic kyphosis, and cervical lordosis.
Been, Ella +5 more
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Cytomegalovirus distribution and evolution in hominines [PDF]
Virus Evolution, 2019 Abstract Herpesviruses are thought to have evolved in very close association with their hosts. This is notably the case for cytomegaloviruses (CMVs; genus Cytomegalovirus) infecting primates, which exhibit a strong signal of co-divergence with their hosts. Some herpesviruses are however known to have crossed species barriers.
Sripriya Murthy +38 more
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Early Hominin Dispersal across the Qinling Mountains, China, during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
Land, 2023 The Qinling Mountain Range (QMR), where more than 500 hominin fossils and Paleolithic sites have been preserved, was a major center of hominin evolution and settlement and an important link for the hominin migration and dispersal between the north and ...
Xiaoqi Guo +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Flip through scientific textbooks illustrating ideas about human evolution or visit any number of museums of natural history and you will notice an abundance of reconstructions attempting to depict the appearance of ancient hominins.
Ryan M. Campbell +4 more
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Fossil skulls reveal that blood flow rate to the brain increased faster than brain volume during human evolution [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 The evolution of human cognition has been inferred from anthropological discoveries and estimates of brain size from fossil skulls. A more direct measure of cognition would be cerebral metabolic rate, which is proportional to cerebral blood flow rate ...
Roger S. Seymour +2 more
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Earliest archaeological evidence of persistent hominin carnivory. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The emergence of lithic technology by ≈ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) is often interpreted as a correlate of increasingly recurrent hominin acquisition and consumption of animal remains.
Joseph V Ferraro +11 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Immature remains are critical for understanding maturational processes in hominin species as well as for interpreting changes in ontogenetic development in hominin evolution.
Debra R Bolter +3 more
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Language evolution to revolution: the leap from rich-vocabulary non-recursive communication system to recursive language 70,000 years ago was associated with acquisition of a novel component of imagination, called Prefrontal Synthesis, enabled by a mutation that slowed down the prefrontal cortex maturation simultaneously in two or more children – the Romulus and Remus hypothesis [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2019 There is an overwhelming archeological and genetic evidence that modern speech apparatus was acquired by hominins by 600,000 years ago. On the other hand, artifacts signifying modern imagination, such as (1) composite figurative arts, (2) bone needles ...
Andrey Vyshedskiy
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