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Hominin musical sound production: palaeoecological contexts and self domestication

Anthropological Review
In 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, Arthur Saniotis, Robert Bednarik, Malin Lindahl, Maciej Henneberg   +4 more
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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, Alianda Maira Cornélio, Ruben Ernesto de Bittencourt-Navarrete, Ricardo ede Bittencourt Brum, Claudio Marcos Queiroz, Marcos Romualdo Costa   +5 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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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, Peter W Ditchfield, Laura C Bishop, John D Kingston, Joseph V Ferraro, David R Braun, Fritz Hertel, Richard Potts   +7 more
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From holism to compositionality: memes and the evolution of segmentation, syntax, and signification in music and language [PDF]

, 2015
Steven Mithen argues that language evolved from an antecedent he terms “Hmmmmm, [meaning it was] Holistic, manipulative, multi-modal, musical and mimetic”.
Adkins, Allanbrook, Blackmore, Boas, Byros, Calvin, Chantler, Chomsky, Cooke, Cross, Crystal, Darwin, Dawkins, Dawkins, Dawkins, Deliège, Dennett, Dennett, Dissanayake, Distin, Durham, Durrell, Fodor, Gjerdingen, Goldberg, Hebb, Jan, Jan, Kirby, Kramer, Leman, Leng, Lerdahl, Lynch, Matyja, Meyer, Meyer, Miller, Mithen, Monelle, Mountcastle, Narmour, Nattiez, Patel, Pinker, Ratner, Rice, Schenker, Scruton, Shapiro, Snyder, Snyder, STEVEN JAN, Strunk, Temperley, Truss, Whorf   +56 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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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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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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What Is the Acheulean? [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
ABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
Moncel M, Cucart‐Mora C, Arzarello M, Ashton N, Baena J, Barsky D, de la Torre I, Galanidou N, García‐Medrano P, Hertler C, Herzlinger G, Ingicco T, Li H, Ma D, Mosquera M, Ollé A, Pappu S, Pei S, Tian C, Wang W, Bae C.   +20 more
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The biomechanical importance of the scaphoid-centrale fusion during simulated knuckle-walking and its implications for human locomotor evolution [PDF]

, 2020
© 2020, The Author(s). Inferring the locomotor behaviour of the last common ancestor (LCA) of humans and African apes is still a divisive issue. An African great-ape-like ancestor using knuckle-walking is still the most parsimonious hypothesis for the ...
Chamberlain, A.T., Marcé-Nogué, J., Püschel, T.A., Sellers, W.I., Yoxall, Alaster   +4 more
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