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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive‐inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a specific form of representational communication, symbolic depictions via spatio‐temporal arrangements of objects, can be inferred without attributing ...
Nima Mussavifard, Gergely Csibra
wiley   +1 more source

Mother of the Nation? The Digital Appropriation of Shanidar Z in Kurdish and Regional Identity Politics

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
wiley   +1 more source

New hominin fossils from Kanapoi, Kenya, and the mosaic evolution of canine teeth in early hominins

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2012
Whilst reduced size, altered shape and diminished sexual dimorphism of the canine-premolar complex are diagnostic features of the hominin clade, little is known about the rate and timing of changes in canine size and shape in early hominins. The earliest
Fredrick Manthi, J. Plavcan, Carol Ward
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Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Adv, 2020
Potts R   +31 more
europepmc   +1 more source

WHAT ONCE WAS SHALL BE AGAIN: PALAEOLITHIC BIFACES AT THE NEOLITHIC SITE OF GIV'AT RABI EAST

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary Giv'at Rabi East is a Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site located in northern Israel, interpreted as a flint workshop. One area has been spatially identified as a ‘biface locality’; it is characterized by the presence of finished axes and preforms alongside débitage. Interestingly, Acheulean bifaces have also been recovered from this area.
Ella Assaf
wiley   +1 more source

Hominin cognitive and behavioural complexity in the Pleistocene: assessment through identity, intentionality and visual display

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesTopics 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
wiley   +1 more source

Unfused transverse foramen of the atlas vertebra in the Neandertal lineage fossils

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, Volume 309, Issue 10, Page 2989-2997, October 2026.
Abstract In anatomically modern humans, the atlas can display an unfused transverse foramen (UTF) but currently the presence of UTF in the Neandertal lineage is uncertain due to a scarcity of prevalence studies and no exhaustive record of its presence throughout the entire hominin fossil record.
Asier Gómez‐Olivencia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 5, Page 2214-2239, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
wiley   +1 more source

Papers from the British Academy Lucy to Language: Archaeology of the Social Brain. Seminar Series on Palaeolithic Visual Display.

open access: yes, 2012
ContentsThe Importance of Conveying Visual Information in Acheulean Society. The Background to the Visual Display HypothesisDr John McNabb, Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO), Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton ...
Grove, Matt   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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