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The evolution and population diversity of human-specific segmental duplications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Segmental duplications contribute to human evolution, adaptation and genomic instability but are often poorly characterized. We investigate the evolution, genetic variation and coding potential of human-specific segmental duplications (HSDs). We identify
Nuttle, Xander   +49 more
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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]

open access: yes, 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   +23 more
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Cooperative Evolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Cooperative Evolution offers a fresh account of evolution consistent with Charles Darwin's own account of a cooperative, inter-connected, buzzing and ever-changing world.
Brown, Valerie A., Bryant, Christopher
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The origins and significance of coastal resource use in Africa and Western Eurasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The systematic exploitation of marine foods by terrestrial mammals lacking aquatic morphologies is rare. Widespread ethnographic and archaeological evidence from many areas of the world shows that modern humans living on coastlines often ratchet up the ...

core   +1 more source

A neonatal perspective on Homo erectus brain growth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Mojokerto calvaria has been central to assessment of brain growth in Homo erectus, but different analytical approaches and uncertainty in the specimen's age at death have hindered consensus on the nature of H. erectus brain growth.
Zachary, Cofran   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Applying evolutionary theory to human behaviour: past differences and current debates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide non-specialist readers with an introduction to some current controversies surrounding the application of evolutionary theory to human behaviour at the intersection of biology, psychology and anthropology. We review the
Gillian R. Brown   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The articles in this theme issue seek to understand the evolutionary bases of social learning and the consequences of cultural transmission for the evolution of human behaviour.
Lewandowsky, Stephan   +10 more
core   +1 more source

The relevance of late MSA mandibles on the emergence of modern morphology in Northern Africa

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
North Africa is a key area for understanding hominin population movements and the expansion of our species. It is home to the earliest currently known Homo sapiens (Jebel Irhoud) and several late Middle Stone Age (MSA) fossils, notably Kébibat ...
Inga Bergmann   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

15th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution Abstracts Paris, 25-27 September 2025

open access: yesPaleoAnthropology
ESHE abstracts 2025.
ESHE: European Society for the study of Human Evolution
doaj   +1 more source

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