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The fossil record stays silent: Confusions and conundrums for hominin pelvis evolution

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The evolution of the hominin pelvis is commonly modeled as a series of stages driven largely by the requirements of bipedal locomotion, reproduction, thermoregulation, and pelvic floor muscular support. These patterns are complicated by variation in canal dimensions in relationship with different changes in overall pelvic breadths. To quantify
Helen K. Kurki, Cara M. Wall‐Scheffler
wiley   +1 more source

Recent origin of low trabecular bone density in modern humans [PDF]

, 2014
Humans are unique, compared with our closest living relatives (chimpanzees) and early fossil hominins, in having an enlarged body size and lower limb joint surfaces in combination with a relatively gracile skeleton (i.e., lower bone mass for our body ...
Chirchira, Habiba, Ruff, Christopher B., Zipfel, Bernhard, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Zipfel, B., Hublin, J. ; https://orcid.org/, Kivell, Tracy L., Carlson, K., Carlson, Kristian J., Richmond, B., Chirchir, H., Richmond, Brian G., Ruff, C., Kivell, T. ; https://orcid.org/   +13 more
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Historical birth records from 1896 to 1944 from the Basel maternity hospital, Switzerland, reveal significant obstetric selection pressures

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality have declined dramatically during the last century. Historical data are therefore important sources to study the evolutionary selection pressures related to childbirth and how they have fluctuated over time.
Mirella Woodert, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Viktoria A. Krenn, Cédric Cordey, Nicole Torres‐Tamayo, Kaspar Staub, Nicole M. Webb, Martin Haeusler   +7 more
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The variability of frontal and occipital features of Homo erectus: a comparative analysis of unpublished fragmentary fossils from Sangiran, Indonesia

UISPP Journal, 2019
Since the first publication of Dubois in 1894, the diagnosis of Homo erectus is based on a list of morphological features established and updated after successive major discoveries made in the 20th century.
Lisa Gollette, Florent Détroit, Neni Trilusiana Rahmawati, Janatin Hastuti, Rusyad Adi Suriyanto, Dominque Grimaud-Hervé   +5 more
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Dental enamel hypoplasia and intra‐tooth isotope records as indicators of physiological stress and environmental variability in Early Pleistocene hippopotamids from Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Enamel hypoplasia results from temporary disruptions of enamel deposition during tooth development. It is widely used as an indicator of physiological stress in archeological and paleontological contexts; yet, its relationship with environmental conditions during tooth formation remains poorly constrained.
Giuseppe Briatico, Denis Geraads, Rita T. Melis, Margherita Mussi   +3 more
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Rib cage anatomy in Homo erectus suggests a recent evolutionary origin of modern human body shape [PDF]

, 2020
The tall and narrow body shape of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved via changes in the thorax, pelvis and limbs. It is debated, however, whether these modifications first evolved together in African Homo erectus, or whether H. erectus had
Gómez-Olivencia, A., Williams, Scott, Bastir, M., Beyer, B., Riesco-López, A., Beyer, Benoît, García-Martínez, Daniel, Gómez-Olivencia, Asier, Barash, A., Been, Ella, García-Río, F., Palancar, Carlos C.A., Torres Sánchez, Isabel, Been, E., Williams, Scott A, Williams, S., Torres-Sánchez, Isabel, Palancar, Carlos A, Torres-Tamayo, Nicole, Villa, C., Nalla, S., Haeusler, M., Spoor, F. ; https://orcid.org/, Spoor, Fred, Williams, Scott A., Palancar, Carlos, Riesco-López, Alberto, Williams, Scott M, García Martínez, Daniel, Sanchis-Gimeno, J., García-Martínez, D., García-Río, Francisco, Haeusler, Martin, Palancar, C., Sanchis-Gimeno, Juan Alberto, Palancar, Carlos A., Villa, Chiara, Torres-Sánchez, I., Bastir, Markus, Nalla, Shahed, Torres-Tamayo, N., Barash, Alon   +41 more
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Since when have humans had a soul?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
An attempt is made to determine when humans have had a soul. For this purpose, mind and soul are distinguished from each other. This clarification of terms makes it possible to criticise the emergentist view, which assumes that the soul arises naturally ...
Andreas May
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Biology, ecology, and conservation of the Italian hare Lepus corsicanus: a review

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The Italian hare Lepus corsicanus, an endemic lagomorph of Italy, serves as a critical case study in evolutionary biology and conservation. Once taxonomically debated, modern genetic and morphological analyses confirm its status as a distinct Pleistocene lineage restricted to the central‐southern Italian Peninsula and Sicily.
Pierangelo Freschi, Valter Trocchi
wiley   +1 more source

A new method for examining hominin dietary strategy: occlusal microwear vector analysis of the Sangiran 7 Homo erectus molars [PDF]

, 2012
Many hominin species are best physically represented and understood by the sum of their dental morphologies. Generally, taxonomic affinities and evolutionary trends in development (ontogeny) and morphology (phylogeny) can be deduced from dental analyses.
Tausch, Jeremy
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Fitting the ladder to the tree: A common sense view on the cognitive evolution of the Pleistocene human lineage

Arheologia Moldovei, 2016
The mismatch between the human paleoanthropological ‘tree’ and the paleo-cognitive ‘ladder’ has been recently attributed to epistemological biases affecting the mainstream narratives on cognitive evolution.
Mircea Anghelinu
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