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Meaning-making behavior in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications

eLife
Explorations 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, Marc Kissel, Penny Spikins, Keneiloe Molopyane, John Hawks, Lee R Berger   +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, Lars Werdelin, Adam Hartstone-Rose, Rodrigo S Lacruz, Lee R Berger   +4 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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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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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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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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Patterns of interspecific variation in labial microarchitecture among anthropoid primates and the evolution of the hominin lips

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Comparative histological and semi‐automated image analysis of primate lips: Masson's trichrome‐stained sagittal sections were segmented to quantify the connective tissue, adipose, and muscular components, enabling interspecific comparisons of labial architecture.
Liat Rotenstreich, Kfir Eliyahu, Nir Edery, Lior Moss, Saleem Eben Bari, Assaf Marom   +5 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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