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Resilience Lost: Intersecting Land Use and Landscape Dynamics in the Prehistoric Southwestern United States

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2006
The interdisciplinary framework known as resilience theory used by ecologists, social scientists, as well as policy makers, is primarily concerned with the sources of transformation and stability in complex socioecological systems.
Matthew A. Peeples   +2 more
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14th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution Abstracts Zagreb, 11-15 September 2024

open access: yesPaleoAnthropology
ESHE abstracts 2024.
ESHE: European Society for the study of Human Evolution
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment : pushing plant–hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The colonization of the human environment by plants, and the consequent evolution of domesticated forms is increasingly being viewed as a co-evolutionary plant–human process that occurred over a long time period, with evidence for the co-evolutionary ...
Kitchen, James   +22 more
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Comparison of sequencing data processing pipelines and application to underrepresented African human populations

open access: yesBMC Bioinformatics, 2021
Background Population genetic studies of humans make increasing use of high-throughput sequencing in order to capture diversity in an unbiased way.
Gwenna Breton   +4 more
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The evolution of the human genome [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2015
Human genomes hold a record of the evolutionary forces that have shaped our species. Advances in DNA sequencing, functional genomics, and population genetic modeling have deepened our understanding of human demographic history, natural selection, and many other long-studied topics.
Corinne N, Simonti, John A, Capra
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Evolution of Human Intelligence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This chapter focuses on the evolution of intelligence and Richard D. Alexander's 1989 paper that explains how the human psyche has evolved. Alexander's prescient paper was one of the first studies to comprehensively seek to explain the “why” question of human consciousness and other core facets of the human mind.
Dunbar, R, Alexander, R
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Obesity stigma as a globalizing health challenge

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2018
Background Based on studies conducted in the global north, it is well documented that those who feel stigmatized by overweight/obesity can suffer extreme emotional distress, be subject to (often legal and socially-acceptable) discrimination, and adjust ...
Alexandra Brewis   +2 more
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Insight into age-related changes of the human facial skeleton based on medieval European osteological collection

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Aging changes in the facial skeleton are concentrated mostly in orbits, maxilla and mandible. The aim of this study was to analyze metric traits of the adult viscerocranium in a medieval sample from Cedynia (Poland, Central Europe) and confront the ...
Anna Walczak   +2 more
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The evolution of human cooperation [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2019
Darwin viewed cooperation as a perplexing challenge to his theory of natural selection. Natural selection generally favors the evolution of behaviors that enhance the fitness of individuals. Cooperative behavior, which increases the fitness of a recipient at the expense of the donor, contradicts this logic. William D.
Coren L, Apicella, Joan B, Silk
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Human Evolution: The Water Theory. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Elaine Morgan lectured on the water theory in conjunction with human evolution and women\u27s role in human ...
SFU Women\u27s Studies Department   +1 more
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