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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"paleoanthropology"”.
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Inscrutability: An Epistemological Experiment
… through a infamous case in the history of paleoanthropology: the Piltdown Man. The second project, Contrapposto in Space (2024) addresses how representation has been instrumentalized in technoscience through space research. Finally, the last two projects, the Poem Box (2024) and Micropoetry …
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Evolutionary dynamics of the hominin pelvis
… 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 pressures that resulted in observed changes. While the …
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The sound of meaning: theories of voice in twentieth-century thought and performance
… of the voice in various disciplines ranging from paleoanthropology, phenomenology, structuralism, speech act theory, theatre semiotics, the philosophies of technology, and media studies. By comparing the status of the voice in other disciplines, this dissertation argues for a recuperation of the …
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Image analysis in the morphological and morphometric study of teeth
… Paleolithic era, specifically scanned in the paleoanthropology laboratory of the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA), in order to increase the paleoanthropological sample data and thereby make the final results of the analyses more significant. The new analysis methodology is …
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Climate, Ecology, and Human Evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene
<p>A major goal of paleoanthropology is to identify the selective pressures associated with hominin biological and behavioral evolution, yet establishing cause-effect relationships between climate, ecology, and human evolution remains problematic. This dissertation seeks to investigate hominin …
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Eurasian Middle and Late Miocene Hominoid Paleobiogeography and the Geographic Origins of the Homininae
The origin and diversification of great apes and humans is among the most researched and debated series of events in the evolutionary history of the Primates. A fundamental part of understanding these events involves reconstructing paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic patterns in the Eurasian …