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Archeological insights into hominin cognitive evolution
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2016How did the human mind evolve? How and when did we come to think in the ways we do? The last thirty years have seen an explosion in research related to the brain and cognition. This research has encompassed a range of biological and social sciences, from epigenetics and cognitive neuroscience to social and developmental psychology.
Thomas, Wynn, Frederick L, Coolidge
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Environmental hypotheses of hominin evolution
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1998The study of human evolution has long sought to explain major adaptations and trends that led to the origin of Homo sapiens. Environmental scenarios have played a pivotal role in this endeavor. They represent statements or, more commonly, assumptions concerning the adaptive context in which key hominin traits emerged.
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Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences, 2012
As only limited insight into behaviour is available from the archaeological record, much of our understanding of historical changes in human cognition is restricted to identifying changes in brain size and architecture. Using both absolute and residual brain size estimates, we show that hominin brain evolution was likely to be the result of a mix of ...
Shultz, S, Nelson, E, Dunbar, RIM
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As only limited insight into behaviour is available from the archaeological record, much of our understanding of historical changes in human cognition is restricted to identifying changes in brain size and architecture. Using both absolute and residual brain size estimates, we show that hominin brain evolution was likely to be the result of a mix of ...
Shultz, S, Nelson, E, Dunbar, RIM
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Evolution of hominin cranial ontogeny
2012Hominin evolution is characterized by two main trends, transition to bipedality and increase in brain size. Fossil evidence shows that both trends had a major impact on the structure and function of the hominin skull. This chapter asks how evolutionary modification of the cranial ontogenetic program led to morphological reorganization of the hominin ...
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Evolution of the Early Hominin Hand
2016Over the course of early hominin evolution, two fundamental changes in hand function occurred: the loss of a locomotor role and unparalleled intensification of manipulation, tool making, and tool use. In the context of these functional changes, early hominin hand anatomy evolved a number of derived characteristics within an otherwise primitive bauplan.
Richmond, B. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5014-5580 +2 more
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Evolution of the hominin knee and ankle
Journal of Human Evolution, 2017The dispersal of the genus Homo out of Africa approximately 1.8 million years ago (Ma) has been understood within the context of changes in diet, behavior, and bipedal locomotor efficiency. While various morphological characteristics of the knee and ankle joints are considered part of a suite of traits indicative of, and functionally related to ...
Frelat, Mélanie +5 more
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Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022Carrie S. Mongle +3 more
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Major Events in Hominin Evolution
2016The hominin footprint record spans ~3.6 Ma, from Late Pliocene to Holocene, and thus also spans a temporal duration corresponding to many of the major events in hominin evolution. While the oldest (~3.6 Ma) tracks from Laetoli (Tanzania) have been attributed, provisionally, to genus Australopithecus, all others are attributed to various species of the ...
Martin Lockley +2 more
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Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2004In order to formulate hypotheses about the evolutionary underpinnings that preceded the first glimmerings of language, mother-infant gestural and vocal interactions are compared in chimpanzees and humans and used to model those of early hominins. These data, along with paleoanthropological evidence, suggest that prelinguistic vocal substrates for ...
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