Considérations ontogénétiques et phylogénétiques concernant l’origine de la parole by Louis-Jean Boë, Jean Granat, Jean-Louis Heim, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Pierre Badin, Guillaume Barbier, Guillaume Captier, Antoine Serrurier, Nicolas Kielwasser

“…We analyzed 31 skulls from now to 1.5 Ma (millions years) BP (Before Present) for fossil hominids available at the Muséedel’Homme in Paris or in the literature: (1) 10-30 ka BP: modern humans: Paleolithic; (2) 90-200 ka BP: anatomically modern humans; (3) 45-90 ka BP: Neanderthals; (4) 1.5 Ma BP: Homoergaster; These skulls are all well kept and possess a jaw in the majority of cases but the vertebral column has been reconstituted. …”
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OH 89: A newly described ~1.8-million-year-old hominid clavicle from Olduvai Gorge by Taylor, Catherine E, Masao, Fidelis, Njau, Jackson K, Songita, Agustino Venance, Hlusko, Leslea J

“…We compare the morphology and clavicular curvature of OH 89 to modern humans, extant apes, and a sample of other hominid fossil clavicles. …”
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L’enfant de Mezmaiskaya (Caucase) examiné dans une double perspective paléogénétique et paléoanthropologique by Véronique Barriel, Anne-Marie Tillier

“…The palaeogenetic interpretation is examined in the present article based on data available for modern humans (Anderson et al. 1981; HvrBase; http://www.hvrbase.de) and for three Middle Palaeolithic fossils from Germany (Feildhofer 1 and 2 ; Krings et al. 1997; Krings et al. 1999; Schmitz et al. 2002) and Croatia (Vindija-75-G3/h-203; Krings et al. 2000), which are attributed to the Neanderthal line and those of Pan paniscus and the four sub-species of Pan troglodytes (EMBL and GenBank). …”
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Un cas d’accouchement en occipito-pubien chez Pan troglodytes by Pierre Frémondière, Romain Lacoste, Lyna Rachid

“…The birthing process in modern humans is supposed to be different from non-human primate birth. …”
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live by Hamed Vahdati Nasab

“…The author attempted to search for many of the social behaviors of modern humans in inherited biology from ancient ancestors of humans and has been very successful in this regard. …”
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1987-2017 : Regard sur l’évolution de l’histoire des origines by Brigitte Senut

“…Fossil hominids were generally compared only to African great apes and modern humans; the apes generally being regarded as primitive. …”
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ATTAINING THE AUTHENTICITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE REVEALED TRUTH COMPREHENSIVELY FROM AL-ZAMAKHSHARI'S PERSPECTIVE by Jarman Arroisi, Martin Putra Perdana, Adi Ihza Baharudin

“…From this, it is found that modern humans excessively rely on human reason, which is purely empirical; moreover, reason ('aql) plays a role in critical thinking in revealing various phenomena. …”
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Flame-forged divergence? Ancient human fires and the evolution of diurnal and nocturnal lineages in moorish geckos by Domenico Fulgione, Danilo Russo, Eleonora Rivieccio, Valeria Maselli, Bice Avallone, Alessandro Mondanaro, Giorgio Giurato, Maria Buglione

“…Mitochondrial genome analyses indicated that the common ancestor of these gecko lineages diverged approximately 6,600 years ago, coinciding with the transition of modern humans from nomadic hunter-gatherers to settled agricultural societies. …”
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Resolving the source of branch length variation in the Y chromosome phylogeny by Yaniv Swiel, Janet Kelso, Stéphane Peyrégne

“…Results Here, we analyze Y chromosomes from present-day and ancient modern humans, as well as Neandertals, and show that branch length variation amongst human Y chromosomes cannot solely be explained by differences in demographic or biological processes. …”
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Vestiges humains des niveaux de l’Aurignacien ancien du site de Brassempouy (Landes) by Dominique Henry-Gambier, Bruno Maureille, Randall White

“…The analysis of these remains, especially the isolated teeth, shows that they fall within the range of variation, not only of anatomically modern humans of the Near Eastern Middle Paleolithic and the European Gravettian, but also of the few known European Aurignacians and of the Wurm II Neandertals. …”
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The Insulin Regulatory Network in Adult Hippocampus and Pancreatic Endocrine System by Masanao Machida, Shin Fujimaki, Ryo Hidaka, Makoto Asashima, Tomoko Kuwabara

“…Might it be possible to reactivate stem cells whose functions have deteriorated and that are present in the tissues in which the lesions occur in diabetes, a lifestyle disease, which plagues modern humans and develops as a result of the behavior of insulin-related factor? …”
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Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum by Andreas Henschel, Riyadh Saif-Ali, Molham Al-Habori, Syafiq Azman Kamarul, Luca Pagani, Cynthia Al Hageh, Emilio Porcu, Nassim Nicolas Taleb, Daniel Platt, Pierre Zalloua

“…Abstract While a broad consensus about the first successful migration modern humans out of Africa seems established, the peopling of Arabia remains somewhat enigmatic. …”
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Genetic Geostatistical Framework for Spatial Analysis of Fine-Scale Genetic Heterogeneity in Modern Populations: Results from the KORA Study by A. N. Diaz-Lacava, M. Walier, D. Holler, M. Steffens, C. Gieger, C. Furlanello, C. Lamina, H. E. Wichmann, T. Becker

“…Aiming to investigate fine-scale patterns of genetic heterogeneity in modern humans from a geographic perspective, a genetic geostatistical approach framed within a geographic information system is presented. …”
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Genetic aspects of lactase deficiency in indigenous populations of Siberia by B. A. Malyarchuk

“…It could have been inherited from a common ancestor of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans, or it could have been acquired by hybridization with Denisovans or Neanderthals. …”
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A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain by Pere Gelabert, Victoria Oberreiter, Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel Ramón González Morales, Susanna Sawyer, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Jeanne Marie Geiling, Florian Exler, Florian Brueck, Stefan Franz, Fernanda Tenorio Cano, Sophie Szedlacsek, Evelyn Zelger, Michelle Hämmerle, Brina Zagorc, Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano, Olivia Cheronet, José-Miguel Tejero, Thomas Rattei, Stephan M. Kraemer, Ron Pinhasi

“…We recover and analyse sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) data from the lower archaeological stratigraphic sequence of El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain), encompassing the (1) Late Mousterian period, associated with Neanderthals, and (2) the Gravettian (c. 31.5 cal kya), Solutrean (c. 24.5–22 cal kya), and Initial Magdalenian (d. 21–20.5 cal kya) periods, associated with anatomically modern humans. We identify 28 animal taxa including humans. …”
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Révision de l’espèce Homo erectus (Dubois, 1893) by Valéry Zeitoun

“…The second clade put together modern human, archaïc Homo sapiens and the Neandertalian lineage. …”
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Teacher’s reflections about the purport of master courses by Alevtina S. Robotova

“…By the example of the Master course “Spiritual and moral development” the author contemplates about the purposes and ways for upbringing the modern humanities scholars. Special attention is paid to the difficulties for magistrates and to a new situation for a magistracy teacher, and also to the pedagogical results, which encourage him and give a support.…”
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF PREHISTORIC CAVES IN BA THUOC DISTRICT, THANH HOA PROVINCE: PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION by Khac Su Nguyen

“…The appearance of early modern human fossils in the Late Pleistocene proves that Vietnam was the site of the earliest modern human evolution in Southeast Asia. …”
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ABOUT THE ROLE OF LIBERAL EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITY’S INNOVATION ACTIVITY by Pavel N. Ermakov, Irina V. Abakumova

“…The authors suggest a new didactic interpretation of two basic ideas of modernization – humanization and humanitarization of education. …”
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Bacterial carrier-mediated drug delivery systems: a promising strategy in cancer therapy by Sizuo Yan, Yu Gan, Huizhe Xu, Huizhe Xu, Haozhe Piao, Haozhe Piao

“…Cancer is a major killer threatening modern human health and a leading cause of death worldwide. …”
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