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Material Before Morphology: Substrate‐Dependent Mechanical Tuning of Radular Teeth

Advanced Materials Interfaces
Biological systems often adapt to mechanical demands through localized tuning of material properties rather than morphological redesign. Here, we identify a natural strategy for functional optimization in gastropod radular teeth—microscale scraping tools
Ida Lilienthal, Bernhard Hausdorf, Stanislav N. Gorb, Wencke Krings   +3 more
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Topography of the infraorbital foramen in human skulls originating from different time periods

Folia Morphologica, 2023
BACKGROUND: The infraorbital foramen (IOF) is present on the maxilla under the infraorbital margin. Its identification is essential in various surgical procedures.
A. Gawlikowska-Sroka, Ł. Stocki, J. Szczurowski, W. Nowaczewska   +3 more
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Palaeoanthropology: Neanderthal family tree [PDF]

Nature, 2010
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Evolution and palaeoanthropology in Hans Blumenberg’s Nachlaß

Aisthesis, 2023
Hans Blumenberg wrote, in an unpublished manuscript entitled Ein Betrug? / Der böse Dämon (UNF 532-534), that «the whole world and human intelligence were hidden beneath the earth, where the relics of the precursors of life rest».
Josefa Ros Velasco
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Care of Infants in the Past: Bridging evolutionary anthropological and bioarchaeological approaches

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020
The importance of care of infants and children in palaeoanthropological and human behavioural ecological research on the evolution of our species is evident in the diversity of research on human development, alloparental care, and learning and social ...
Siân Halcrow, Ruth Warren, Geoff Kushnick, April Nowell   +3 more
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In the shadow of Kaaper. Preliminary report on the anonymous Fifth Dynasty tomb AS 88 [PDF]

Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2021
This paper presents an archaeological report on the anonymous Fifth Dynasty mastaba AS 88 from the Abusir South necropolis, south west of the tomb of the official Kaaper (AS 1).
Martin Odler , Katarína Arias , Jiří Honzl , Petra Brukner Havelková , Zdeňka Sůvová   +4 more
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Micromorphological Study of Site Formation Processes at El Sidrón Cave (Asturias, Northern Spain): Encrustations over Neanderthal Bones

Geosciences, 2021
El Sidrón Cave is an archaeological and anthropological reference site of the Neanderthal world. It shows singular activity related to cannibalisation, and all existing processes are relevant to explain the specific behaviour of the concerned individuals.
Juan Carlos Cañaveras, Sergio Sánchez-Moral, Elsa Duarte, Gabriel Santos-Delgado, Pablo G. Silva, Soledad Cuezva, Ángel Fernández-Cortés, Javier Lario, María Concepción Muñoz-Cervera, Marco de la Rasilla   +9 more
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Integrative Paths to the Past: Paleoanthropological Advances in Honor of F. Clark Howell, edited by Robert S. Corrnccini and Russell L. Ciochon, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1994.

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 1995
F. Clark Howell retired from the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. At Berkeley, and earlier while at the University of Chicago, he was responsible for training a number of specialists in human ...
Pamela R. Willoughby
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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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History and reality of the genus ‘Homo’: What is it and why do we think so?

Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2018
Paleoanthropologists who worry about how nature is organized into species, and about what we should call them, are very often accused by their peers of «just arguing about names».
Ian Tattersall
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