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Glacial–Interglacial Cycles and Early Human Evolution in China

open access: yesLand, 2023
China is a crucial region for investigating the relationship between climate change and hominin evolution across diverse terrestrial ecosystems. With the continuous development of palaeoclimatology, chronology, and archaeology, the environmental and ...
Zhenyu Qin, Xuefeng Sun
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The Significance of Chimpanzee Occipital Asymmetry to Hominin Evolution [PDF]

open access: yesSymmetry, 2021
Little is known about how occipital lobe asymmetry, width, and height interact to contribute to the operculation of the posterior parietal lobe, despite the utility of knowing this for understanding the relative reduction in the size of the occipital lobe and the increase in the size of the posterior parietal lobe during human brain evolution. Here, we
Shawn Hurst   +3 more
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The effectiveness of using carbonate isotope measurements of body tissues to infer diet in human evolution: Evidence from wild western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)* [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Changes in diet throughout hominin evolution have been linked with important evolutionary changes. Stable carbon isotope analysis of inorganic apatite carbonate is the main isotopic method used to reconstruct fossil hominin diets; to test its ...
Boesch, Christophe   +7 more
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Protocol combining tree-based Maximum Parsimony and web-like Phylogenetic Networks analyses to investigate reticulate human evolution

open access: yesSTAR Protocols, 2022
Summary: Our protocol combines Maximum Parsimony and Phylogenetic Networks approaches to understand the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary processes of hominin species that might have shared inheritance from multiple ancestors. By addressing the
Miguel Caparros, Sandrine Prat
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Hominin footprints from Early Pleistocene deposits at Happisburgh, UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The research was funded by the Calleva Foundation as part of the Pathways to Ancient Britain Project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Investigations at ...
Simon A. Parfitt   +66 more
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The estimation and evolution of hominin body mass

open access: yesEvolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2023
AbstractBody mass is a critical variable in many hominin evolutionary studies, with implications for reconstructing relative brain size, diet, locomotion, subsistence strategy, and social organization. We review methods that have been proposed for estimating body mass from true and trace fossils, consider their applicability in different contexts, and ...
Christopher B. Ruff, Bernard A. Wood
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Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-year-old Hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate fossils in several African archaeological assemblages demonstrate a significant level of ...
Uribelarrea David   +64 more
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Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Homo naledi is a previously-unknown species of extinct hominin discovered within the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
Deane, A.   +348 more
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Testing for a facultative locomotor mode in the acquisition of archosaur bipedality [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2019
Bipedal locomotion is a defining characteristic of humans and birds and has a profound effect on how these groups interact with their environment.
Luke R. Grinham   +2 more
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Oldest evidence of tool making hominins in a grassland-dominated ecosystem. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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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