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Un cas d’articulation coraco-claviculaire bilatérale exceptionnelle dans les collections du Musée de l’Homme (Paris, France)

open access: yesBulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2021
The authors present a case of unusual bilateral coraco-clavicular joints from the anthropological collections of the Musée de l’Homme. The articular facets are very large on both the clavicles and scapulae.
Jean-Luc Voisin, Christophe Obry
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Gravettian cranial morphology and human group affinities during the European Upper Palaeolithic

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
Archaeologically defined Upper Palaeolithic (UP, 45,000–10,000 years ago) “cultures” are often used as proxies to designate fossil populations. While recent genomic studies have partly clarified the complex relationship between European UP “cultures” and
Aurélien Mounier   +5 more
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The energy allocation trade-offs underlying life history traits in hypometabolic strepsirhines and other primates

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Life history, brain size and energy expenditure scale with body mass in mammals but there is little conclusive evidence for a correlated evolution between life history and energy expenditure (either basal/resting or daily) independent of body mass.
Bruno Simmen   +3 more
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Redécouverte d’un tibia et d’un fémur provenant du site de La Madeleine, Dordogne

open access: yesBulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2007
During the inventory of the anthropological collections of the Musée de l’Homme (Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris) in 2006, a right tibia and a right femur apparently coming from the site of La Madeleine, Dordogne, were found.
Aurélie Fort
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The variability of frontal and occipital features of Homo erectus: a comparative analysis of unpublished fragmentary fossils from Sangiran, Indonesia

open access: yesUISPP 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   +5 more
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Recorridos americanistas: Paul Rivet, los pícaros mexicanos y el tríptico novo-hispano

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2007
L’auteure analyse trois thèses soutenues à Paris en décembre 2006. Celle de Christine Laurière s’intéresse au personnage de Paul Rivet, fondateur du Musée de l’Homme.
Carmen Bernand
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Reassessment of the Middle Pleistocene human remains from Rabat-Kébibat (Morocco)

open access: yesUISPP Journal, 2019
The peopling of North Africa and the emergence of the first Homo sapiens is an ongoing debate, recently enriched by the discovery of a new human fossil remain in Jebel Irhoud (Morocco), attributed to a modern human and dated to ca 300 ka. In this context,
Aicha Oujaa   +3 more
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Multi-Taxa Neo-Taphonomic Analysis of Bone Remains from Barn Owl Pellets and Cross-Validation of Observations: A Case Study from Dominica (Lesser Antilles)

open access: yesQuaternary, 2021
Paleo- and neo-taphonomic analyses of bone assemblages rarely consider all the occurring taxa in a single study and works concerning birds of prey as accumulators of microvertebrate bone remains mostly focus on small mammals such as rodents and ...
Emmanuelle Stoetzel   +5 more
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The fossil record stays silent: Confusions and conundrums for hominin pelvis evolution

open access: yesThe 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

Body Weight Perceptions as a Determinant of Obesity and Emerging Eating Disorders Among Young Cameroonian Migrants

open access: yesYouth
African migrants living in High-Income Countries are more vulnerable to socio-economic insecurity, as well as higher morbidity and mortality. In their cultural background, these populations, especially the Bamiléké ethnic group from Cameroon, tend to ...
Emmanuel Cohen   +7 more
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