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But could they tell right from wrong? Evolution, moral responsibility and human distinctiveness
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 This article takes as its point of departure the public interest aroused by the discovery of Homo naledi and the debate about the possibility that H. naledi buried their dead. If they buried their dead, did H.
David N. Field
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Expanded Explorations of the Dinaledi Subsystem, Rising Star Cave System, South Africa
PaleoAnthropology, 2021 The Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system has yielded a large assemblage of fossil hominin material, attributed to Homo naledi. The unusual taphonomic and geological situation of the assemblage suggested that the remains may have been ...
Marina C. Elliott +18 more
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Sexual Dimorphism in Homo erectus Inferred from 1.5 Ma Footprints Near Ileret, Kenya [PDF]
, 2019 Sexual dimorphism can be one of the most important indicators of social behavior in fossil species, but the effects of time averaging, geographic variation, and differential preservation can complicate attempts to determine this measure from preserved ...
Hatala, Kevin G. +2 more
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Fossils and tombs and how they haunt us
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 Fossils and tombs in museums fascinate us and haunt us with their secrets. The discovery of the remains of Homo naledi, found, as argued by some, in an ancient burial chamber, promises to reveal secrets of an unremembered past, thus offering clues ...
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
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Virtual anthropology – a brief review of the literature and history of computed tomography [PDF]
, 2017 Computed tomography (CT) has influenced numerous fields since its inception in the 1970s. The field of palaeoanthropology significantly benefited from this efficient and non-invasive medium in terms of the conservation, reconstruction and analysis of ...
Uldin, T.
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Metatarsophalangeal proportions of Homo naledi
South African Journal of Science, 2019 Post-cranial differences between extant apes and humans include differences in the length, shape and size of bone elements relative to each other; i.e. differences in proportions.
Sarah Traynor +2 more
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Human bipedal instability in tree canopy environments is reduced by “light touch” fingertip support [PDF]
, 2017 Whether tree canopy habitats played a sustained role in the ecology of ancestral bipedal hominins is unresolved. Some argue that arboreal bipedalism was prohibitively risky for hominins whose increasingly modern anatomy prevented them from gripping ...
A Casteren van +58 more
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South African Journal of Science, 2019 Discovery of a new hominin (Homo naledi) in the same geographical area as Australopithecus africanus creates the opportunity to compare developmental dental stress in higher latitude hominins with low that in latitude apes, among whom repetitive linear ...
Mark F. Skinner
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Australopithecus afarensis endocasts suggest ape-like brain organization and prolonged brain growth
, 2020 Human brains are three times larger, are organized differently, and mature for a longer period of time than those of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. Together, these characteristics are important for human cognition and social behavior, but
Alemseged, Z. +8 more
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New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’ [PDF]
, 2016 In 1912, palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and amateur antiquarian and solicitor Charles Dawson announced the discovery of a fossil that supposedly provided a link between apes and humans: Eoanthropus dawsoni (Dawson's dawn man).
Abbas, Rizwaan +15 more
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