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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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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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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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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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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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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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Palaeoanthropology and the study of pre-adult fossil remains
Annals of Human BiologyContext 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 +15 more
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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 +8 more
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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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