Results 81 to 90 of about 872 (208)
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.This study reports two isolated feather fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation in northeastern China. Morphological analyses identified them as the earliest known feathered theropods (potentially including avian) in the Jehol Biota. This finding reveals a complex ecosystem at the dawn of the Jehol Biota, bridging the temporal and faunal ...
Qian Wu +2 more
wiley +1 more source
The place and the value of phylogeny in paleoanthropology: just talking or never mind?
UISPP Journal, 2019 The diffusion of sensational and incomplete analyses, as well as the misinterpretation of data, has led to a series of paleoanthropological paradigms which are, for the most part, purely speculative. These practices result from a lack of knowledge of the
Valéry Zeitoun
doaj +1 more source
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The evolutionary study of human dispersal is a key topic in biological anthropology. However, recent research has revealed inconsistencies between molecular and anatomical data across different timescales and geographic regions. Despite increased interdisciplinary dialogue, these discordances are rarely analyzed in depth or interpreted for ...
Lumila Paula Menéndez, Sophie Veigl
wiley +1 more source
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
wiley +1 more source
Why heads matter in palaeoanthropology: The impacts and consequences of collecting skulls
This piece reflects on the importance of and focus on heads – especially the collecting of skulls and its impacts – in alpha taxonomy, biological anthropology, and Western science more broadly. We consider how the announcement and overall discovery story
Rebecca R. Ackermann +2 more
core +1 more source
Boreas, EarlyView.The Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. The basin comprises several hundred metres of Plio‐Pleistocene sediments alternating between clastics and lignites.
Ines J. E. Bludau +13 more
wiley +1 more source
The Late Pleistocene in the Northeastern Central African Rainforest
The reconstruction of Late Pleistocene population dynamics in the northeastern Central African rainforest is hampered by the scanty though intriguing environmental,archaeological, and human fossil records. The few well documented and dated sites combined
Cornelissen, E.
core +1 more source
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
core
Cave men: Stone tools, Victorian science, and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time
, 2010 Palaeoanthropology, the study of the evolution of humanity, arose in the nineteenth century. Excavations in Europe uncovered a series of archaeological sediments which provided proof that the antiquity of human life on Earth was far longer than the ...
Paul B. Pettitt, Mark J. White
core +2 more sources
Boreas, EarlyView.Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides important new information on the Aurignacian. The site is rather small (26.5 m2) and spatial analysis identified a central hearth with two associated ...
Tilman Böckenförde +5 more
wiley +1 more source