The Possible Role of Body Temperature in Modulating Brain and Body Sizes in Hominin Evolution. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Lingam M.
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The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps
NatureBipedalism is a human-defining trait1-3. It is made possible by the familiar, bowl-shaped pelvis, whose short, wide iliac blades curve along the sides of the body to stabilize walking and support internal organs and a large-brained, broad-shouldered baby4-6. The ilium changes compared with living primates are an evolutionary novelty7. However, how this
Gayani Senevirathne +18 more
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Growing together: Developmental integration and modularity in the human talus–calcaneus complex
Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.This study investigates morphological integration and trabecular bone development in the human talus–calcaneus complex during postnatal ontogeny. The two bones exhibit strong integration throughout development, with differing bone volume fraction trajectories presumably reflecting their distinct functional roles during bipedal gait acquisition ...
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Music, dance, synchrony, and conformity: dealing with non-cooperation in early Hominin culture
, 2017 ArticleUsing Robin Dunbar’s theories about hominin social bonding and the evolution of music, dance and religion, this article argues that a proto-ritualistic collective song and dance performance established conditions that were ideal for the ...
Liebenberg, Deon, D. Liebenberg
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Genetic assimilation in the evolution of hominin neuroplasticity
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2019 The discovery and popularisation of the study of different evolutionary processes outside the current evolutionary framework provide researchers of different areas with new tools to make progress in their field.
Luiz do Valle Miranda
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PhaseDancer: a novel targeted assembler of segmental duplications unravels the complexity of the human chromosome 2 fusion going from 48 to 46 chromosomes in hominin evolution. [PDF]
Genome Biol, 2023 Poszewiecka B +4 more
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Ostensive communication in great apes: The evolution of Gricean intent
Mind &Language, EarlyView.I discuss the evolution of ostensive behaviours (behaviours that display the communicative intent to influence others through the perception of signals and actions addressed to them). Ostensive communication evolved out of evolutionary adaptations to the challenges and opportunities created by the evolutionary scenario of the meeting of ...
Juan Carlos Gómez
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, 2012 ContentsThe Importance of Conveying Visual Information in Acheulean Society. The Background to the Visual Display HypothesisDr John McNabb, Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO), Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton ...
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Hominin evolution and diversity: a comparison of earlier-Middle and later-Middle Pleistocene hominin fossil variation in China. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Liu W, Athreya S, Xing S, Wu X.
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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations
Mind &Language, EarlyView.We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive‐inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a specific form of representational communication, symbolic depictions via spatio‐temporal arrangements of objects, can be inferred without attributing ...
Nima Mussavifard, Gergely Csibra
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