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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"hominin evolution"”.
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Functional myology of the primate head and neck with implications for hominin evolution
… of fossil primates, particularly fossil hominins, have relied upon untested hypotheses linking nuchal muscle form and function to bony morphologies. This thesis addresses the gap in knowledge of variation in the primate nuchal musculature and its relationship to positional behaviors …
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Using a multiproxy analysis of springbok fossils to track 2 million years of vegetation changes experienced by hominins in southern Africa.
A causal link between climatic changes and hominin evolution is an established one, yet the exact dynamics of this relationship is debated. Key climatic changes, such as the intensification of the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, the onset of the Walker Circulation and the Mid-Pleistocene …
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The Makapansgat Hominins: A Descriptive and Comparative Morphological Study
… the assemblage to other South African early hominin samples. The fossils examined here include previously undescribed fossils from the fossiliferous ex-situ breccia piles of the Makapansgat Limeworks. Data analyses incorporated extant humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and macaques to provide a …
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Dietary ecology of mixed-feeding antelopes in the Omo-Turkana basin during the Plio-Pleistocene: a tool to investigate hominin palaeo-environments.
… antelope species could be used to investigate hominin palaeo-environments in the Omo-Turkana basin during the Plio-Pleistocene (3.5-1.6 Ma), a detailed study of the dietary ecology of mixed-feeding antelopes was proposed. This research focused on the diets of the impala (genus Aepyceros) and …
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The role of geophytes in stone age hunter-gatherer subsistence and human evolution in the greater cape floristic region
… diet was an important driver in human evolution and supported the energetic requirements to sustain brain development throughout hominin evolution. Plants that possess underground storage organs (geophytes) have been put forward as the likely source of starch. Geophytes comprise a large …
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Ecomorphological and Ecometric Approaches to Clarifying Homo sapiens Palaeoecology
… years ago). The morphological diversity of hominin fossils, the patterns seen in technological and cultural evolution, and the signals of genetic exchanges from this time period are puzzling and are yet to be fully understood. Hominin evolution, whether biological or cultural, is naturally …
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Evolutionary dynamics of the hominin pelvis
… uniquely important for understanding our evolution. Most previous studies of pelvic evolution, and paleoanthropology in general, use interspecific morphological comparisons among extant and extinct primates to make inferences as to the behavior, phylogenetic relationships, and selective …
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Rock, Paper, Aliens: Effects of Labels and Iconicity on Non-Linguistic Cognition
… The latter was of high adaptive importance to hominins; and serves as one of the best records of hominin behaviour and by extension cognition. Understanding how labels and iconicity interact with this key process is therefore important from an evolutionary perspective. Iconic labels roughly …