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Fossil mammals from the Gondolin Dump A ex situ hominin deposits, South Africa [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The Gondolin palaeokarstic system, located in the UNESCO Fossil Hominids of South Africa World Heritage Site, has been sporadically excavated since the 1970s. Sampling of ex situ dumpsites in 1997 recovered the only two fossil hominin specimens recovered
Justin W. Adams
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Human-like hip joint loading in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus [PDF]
Journal of Human Evolution, 2018 Adaptations indicative of habitual bipedalism are present in the earliest recognized hominins. However, debate persists about various aspects of bipedal locomotor behavior in fossil hominins, including the nature of gait kinematics, locomotor variability across different species, and the degree to which various australopith species engaged in arboreal ...
Timothy M. Ryan +5 more
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Dental caries in South African fossil hominins
South African Journal of Science, 2021 Once considered rare in fossil hominins, caries has recently been reported in several hominin species, requiring a new assessment of this condition during human evolution.
Ian Towle +4 more
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Fossil micromammals and the palaeoenvironments of the Paranthropus robustus site of Cooper’s Cave
Historical Biology, 2023 The Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa) provides an important fossil record of the evolutionary history of PlioPleistocene hominins. Cooper's Cave deposits have yielded a rich fossil faunal assemblage, as well as six remains attributed to Paranthropus robustus. This study provides the first taxonomic, taphonomic and palaeoecological description
Pierre Linchamps +7 more
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Hominin palaeoecology in Late Pliocene Malawi : first insights from isotopes (13C, 18O) in mammal teeth [PDF]
, 2011 Carbon-13 and oxygen-18 abundances were measured in large mammal skeletal remains (tooth enamel, dentine and bone) from the Chiwondo Beds in Malawi, which were dated by biostratigraphic correlation to ca. 2.5 million years ago.
Bocherens, Herv +3 more
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Feeling a bit peckish: Seasonal and opportunistic insectivory for wild gorillas
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 182, Issue 2, Page 210-223, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Objectives Insectivory likely contributed to survival of early humans in diverse conditions and influenced human cognitive evolution through the need to develop harvesting tools. In living primates, insectivory is a widespread behavior and frequently seasonal, although previous studies do not always agree on reasons behind this.
Claire Auger +6 more
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The Equidae from Cooper’s D, an early Pleistocene fossil locality in Gauteng, South Africa [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Cooper’s D is a fossil locality in the Bloubank Valley close to other important sites such as Sterkfontein and Kromdraai in Gauteng, South Africa. The fossil deposits of Cooper’s D date to 1.38 ± 0.11 Ma.
Shaw Badenhorst, Christine M. Steininger
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A tooth crown morphology framework for interpreting the diversity of primate dentitions
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 32, Issue 5, Page 240-255, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Variation in tooth crown morphology plays a crucial role in species diagnoses, phylogenetic inference, and the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the primate clade. While a growing number of studies have identified developmental mechanisms linked to tooth size and cusp patterning in mammalian crown morphology, it is unclear (1) to ...
Simon A. Chapple, Matthew M. Skinner
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Form, function and evolution of the human hand
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 181, Issue S76, Page 6-57, August 2023., 2023 Abstract The modern human hand is an intriguing mix of primitive morphology and derived function. Traditionally, its form and function are explained as a functional “trade‐off” between the requirements of locomotion and manipulation, but recently acquired comparative, experimental and fossil evidence suggests that this functional trade‐off is more ...
Tracy L. Kivell +4 more
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Root caries on a Paranthropus robustus third molar from Drimolen [PDF]
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2019 Abstract Objectives Dental caries is often perceived as a modern human disease. However, their presence is documented in many early human groups, various nonhuman primates and, increasingly, our hominin ancestors and relatives.
Towle I. +5 more
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