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Deciphering African late middle Pleistocene hominin diversity and the origin of our species

Nature Communications, 2019
Late Middle Pleistocene (LMP) hominin fossils are scarce, limiting reconstruction of human evolution during this key period. Here, the authors use phylogenetic modelling to predict the modern human last common ancestor’s morphology and inform hypotheses ...
Aurélien Mounier, Marta Mirazón Lahr
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The nature of culture : an eight-grade model for the evolution and expansion of cultural capacities in hominins and other animals [PDF]

, 2015
Tracing the evolution of human culture through time is arguably one of the most controversial and complex scholarly endeavors, and a broad evolutionary analysis of how symbolic, linguistic, and cultural capacities emerged and developed in our species is ...
Collard, Mark, Haidle, Miriam Noël, Conard, N., Tennie, Claudio, Bolus, M., Whiten, A., Haidle, M.N., Nowell, April, Haidle, M., Nowell, A., Lombard, Marlize, Haidle, Miriam, Tennie, C., Collard, M., Tennie, C. ; https://orcid.org/, Bolus, Michael, Whiten, Andrew, Garofoli, D., Garafoli, Duilio, Garofoli, Duilio, Conard, N.J., Conard, Nicholas, Lombard, M., Whiten, A.; id_orcid   +23 more
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The emergence and complexification of symbolic practices in the Homo lineage: an archaeological and cognitive perspective Émergence et complexification des pratiques symboliques dans la lignée Homo : une approche archéologique et cognitive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent archaeological discoveries, reviewed in this essay, challenge traditional views on the emergence of human symbolic cognition. Once believed to have originated in Europe around 40,000 years ago, new evidence shows it emerged much earlier across diverse regions.
Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colagè, Larissa M. Straffon, Andrea Bender   +3 more
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Gough's Cave and biomolecular archaeology: a story of evolving interpretation Archéologie biomoléculaire à la grotte de Gough's Cave : une interprétation en constante évolution

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Gough's Cave is a key archaeological site that has been at heart of British archaeology for the past century. Professor Chris Stringer, whom this special issue honours, has been a key figure in excavations and research projects at the site for many decades.
William A. Marsh
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns of change in in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa: Implications for hominin evolution

, 2007
This paper uses changes in origination and extinction rates and species richness of eastern African carnivorans through time to discuss issues related to the evolution of hominin behavior.
Lewis, Margaret E., Werdelin, Lars,
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Hominin dispersals: causes, conditions, and outcomes Dispersions des hominines : causes, conditions et issues

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The ‘Out of Africa’ model that has dominated palaeoanthropology for nearly three decades was originally based on five elements: a recent ancestry to human populations; an African origin for the ancestral population; limited or no gene flow among archaic hominins and no admixture between modern humans and Neanderthals; a marked difference between the ...
Robert A. Foley, Marta Mirazón Lahr
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Hominin Brain Evolution – New Century, New Directions [PDF]

, 2004
The study of hominin brain evolution focuses on the interiors of fossilized braincases. Applications of recent three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques for visualizing and measuring »virtual endocasts«
Falk, Dean
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A lineage perspective on hominin taxonomy and evolution

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews
AbstractAn uncritical reliance on the phylogenetic species concept has led paleoanthropologists to become increasingly typological in their delimitation of new species in the hominin fossil record. As a practical matter, this approach identifies species as diagnosably distinct groups of fossils that share a unique suite of morphological characters but,
Jesse M. Martin, A. B. Leece, Stephanie E. Baker, Andy I. R. Herries, David S. Strait   +4 more
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Reassessment of the morphological evidence for hominin hybrids in the Levant Réévaluation des indices morphologiques d'hominines hybrides au Proche‐Orient

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Levantine hominin fossil and archaeological records have played a central role in long‐standing palaeoanthropological debates over origin models and possible interbreeding between Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) and Homo sapiens. Recent research has provided a strong framework for the morphological expectations of recent hybrid ancestry in ...
Suzy White, Chris Stringer
wiley   +1 more source

Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
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