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100 Years of palaeo-research and its relevance for transformation and social cohesion in South Africa
Published 2025-02-01“…This centennial milestone necessitates reflection on the role of science in society, with a critical look at the relationship between palaeosciences, the theories of human evolution, and the researcher’s interaction with southern African Indigenous peoples. …”
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A note on the use of influenza vaccination strategies when supply is limited
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Taung and beyond: The mining history, geology and taphonomy of Australopithecus in South Africa
Published 2025-02-01“…The South African Fossil Hominid sites provide a unique opportunity to expand our understanding of the intersection between human evolution and changing environmental conditions, as the karstic landscape and remnant cave systems preserve both fossils and sedimentary archives of past environmental change. …”
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Inactivation of the CMAH gene and deficiency of Neu5Gc play a role in human brain evolution
Published 2025-02-01“…Abstract During human evolution, some genes were lost or silenced from the genome of hominins. …”
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The ground beneath our feet: A critical reflection on 135 years of landscape evolution models for southern Africa
Published 2025-02-01“…As we mark the centenary of the Taung discovery, we look toward a new era of landscape evolution research: one characterised by technological advancements and more diverse, local teams that will produce more quantitative, nuanced models for southern Africa and create richer, more dynamic backdrops for our own human evolution. Significance: We provide a review of over 100 years of models used to characterise landscape evolution in southern Africa. …”
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Why heads matter in palaeoanthropology: The impacts and consequences of collecting skulls
Published 2025-02-01“…Finally, we focus on how this early overemphasis on skulls, and especially brain size/intelligence, may have skewed our understanding of human evolution and contributed to ideas of human exceptionalism. …”
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On the human nature (following in the steps of Belyaev)
Published 2017-07-01“…At the early stages of human evolution, the areas of the cerebral cortex that were responsible for the development of speech expanded and reorganized. …”
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Modeling the role of healthcare access inequalities in epidemic outcomes
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Genetics : analysis of genes and genomes /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Genes, genomes and genetic analysis -- DNA structure and genetic variation -- Transmission genetics : the principle of segregation -- The chromosomal basis of inheritance -- Genetic linkage and chromosome mapping -- Human karyotypes and chromosome behavior -- The genetics of complex characters -- Genetics of the bacteria and their viruses -- Molecular organization of chromosomes and genomes -- DNA replication and sequencing -- Mutation, repair, and recombination -- Molecular biology of gene expression -- Molecular mechanisms of gene regulation -- Manipulating genes and genomes -- Genetic control of development -- The genetics of cancer -- Extranuclear inheritance -- Genetics of populations -- Human evolution.…”
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Unpacking the ‘explorer’ narrative and its impacts on African palaeoanthropology
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OH 89: A newly described ~1.8-million-year-old hominid clavicle from Olduvai Gorge
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Identité biologique des artisans moustériens de Kebara (Mont Carmel, Israël) Réflexions sur le concept de néanderthalien au Levant méditerranéen
Published 2008-06-01“…The excellent state of preservation of the hominid remains enables a new insight into the anatomy of Levantine Middle Palaeolithic populations and provides important data for reconstructing the pattern of human evolution in the Near East. With this in view, re-examination of some skeletal remains recovered at Kebara Cave suggests. that biological differences and similarities may have existed between Neanderthals and Levantine Middle Palaeolithic hominids, strengthening the existence of regional variation.…”
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Introduction au dossier Regards sur le passé : 30 ans de la Société Francophone de Primatologie
Published 2018-05-01“…Here, three contributions consider the past with three time scales (paleontological, ecological, ethological) where primates are models to study human evolution. This special section thus proposes complementary perspectives on the study of temporality in primatology as well as works from historians rarely circulated towards primatologists.…”
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From Exigent to Adaptive
Published 2019-12-01“…Klein uses architecture to imagine a new, joyful world to come, encouraging human evolution through the employment of playful mechanics.…”
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The Carnivore Connection Hypothesis: Revisited
Published 2012-01-01“…The “Carnivore Connection” hypothesizes that, during human evolution, a scarcity of dietary carbohydrate in diets with low plant : animal subsistence ratios led to insulin resistance providing a survival and reproductive advantage with selection of genes for insulin resistance. …”
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF PREHISTORIC CAVES IN BA THUOC DISTRICT, THANH HOA PROVINCE: PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION
Published 2022-08-01“…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. In Ba Thuoc district, human communities were in continuous residence from 30,000 to 7,000 years BP and developed the Dieu stone craft industry. …”
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Variation morphologique et concept d’espèce en paléoanthropologie : l’exemple d’Australopithecus en Afrique australe
Published 2022-10-01“…Historical debates around the fossil remains attributed to Australopithecus in southern Africa is an emblematic example of the influence of those questions on our understanding of human evolution. Since the earliest discoveries, scientific papers have been reporting a high degree of morphological variation within this assemblage. …”
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