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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Hans Blumenberg wrote, in an unpublished manuscript entitled Ein Betrug?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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Palaeoanthropology: Neanderthal family tree [PDF]

Nature, 2010
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Unpacking the ‘explorer’ narrative and its impacts on African palaeoanthropology

South African Journal of Science
The concepts of explorer, expedition, and the combination of the two into the myth of the explorer have been integral parts of Western mentality for more than 200 years.
Rebecca R. Ackermann, Keneiloe Molopyane, Sheela Athreya   +2 more
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The bones of palaeoanthropology [PDF]

Nature, 1982
The Hunters or the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy. By C.K. Brain. Pp.365. ISBN 0-226-07089-1. (University of Chicago Press: 1981.) £24.50, $45.50.
Andrew Hill
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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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Palaeoanthropology: Disputed ground [PDF]

Nature, 2010
Finds in Turkey could answer key questions about ancient human origins, but palaeoanthropologists there must first bury their disputes. Rex Dalton reports from the field.
Rex Dalton
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Light Has Been Thrown (on Human Origins): a Brief History of Palaeoanthropology, with Notes on the "Punctuated" Origin of Homo Sapiens

Aisthesis, 2013
“Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history”: this was the single line that Charles Darwin devoted to human evolution in the Origin of Species (1859).
Giorgio Manzi, Fabio Di Vincenzo
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Palaeoanthropology: Craniums with clout [PDF]

Nature, 2011
A look at two early human fossils reveals the prejudices in ideas about human evolution, finds Henry Gee.
Henry Gee
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Contesting a legendary legacy: A century of reflection on Raymond Dart and the Taung skull

South African Journal of Science
In 1925, Raymond Dart published his description of the Taung Child skull, which he named Australopithecus africanus, thereby making a pivotal contribution to the field of palaeoanthropology. While recognising Dart’s central role in the field, this paper
Christa Kuljian
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Boundaries of palaeoanthropology [PDF]

Nature, 1979
G. E. Kennedy
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