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Unpacking the ‘explorer’ narrative and its impacts on African palaeoanthropology [PDF]
South African Journal of ScienceThe 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 +2 more
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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 [PDF]
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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The Realities of Fieldwork: Embedding professional practice - a case study from palaeoanthropology [PDF]
, 2019 Programs in palaeoanthropology (the study of human evolution) do not often provide professional fieldwork training. Palaeoanthropology students are thus at risk of being unaware of the professional practices and responsibilities that come with a career ...
Kovarovic, Kris
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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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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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Hominin landscapes and co-evolutionary ecology: accommodating logical incoherence and complexity [PDF]
, 2012 Understanding primate (and human) evolutionary environments is a key goal of palaeoanthropology. The most recent contribution to this debate, the ‘tectonic landscape model’ (TLM) is the first to explicitly invoke either the spatial structure of ...
Winder, Isabelle Catherine
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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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SISA RANGKA MANUSIA DARI SITUS GUNUNG WINGKO
Berkala Arkeologi, 1987 Situs Gunung Wingko merupakan situs hunian pantai. Situs seperti ini juga ditemukan di luar Jawa, seperti di Gilimanuk (Bali), Gunung Piring (Lombok) dan Melolo (Sumba) (Nitihaminoto , 1982) .
Koeshardjono
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, 2018 The history of scientific discovery is overwhelmingly told as a narrative of the lives and discoveries of a series of remarkable white men. Christa Kuljian’s real triumph in this book is that she reframes the narrative of palaeoanthropological discovery ...
Rebecca Rogers Ackermann
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Long-term patterns of body mass and stature evolution within the hominin lineage [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Body size is a central determinant of a species' biology and adaptive strategy, but the number of reliable estimates of hominin body mass and stature have been insufficient to determine long-term patterns and subtle interactions in these size components ...
Manuel Will +2 more
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