Insights From Language-Trained Apes: Brain Network Plasticity and Communication [0.03%]
取经猩猩的启示：脑网络的可塑性和交际能力
Begun Erbaba,Mira Sinha,Elaine E Guevara et al.
Begun Erbaba et al.
Language is central to the cognitive and sociocultural traits that distinguish humans, yet the evolutionary emergence of this capacity is far from fully understood. This review explores how the study of the brains of language-trained apes (...
Neanderthal Cranio-Cervical Features: Morphological Integration and Functional Evaluation of Their Early Appearance [0.03%]
尼安德特人颅颈特征：形态整合及其早期出现的功能评价
Marco Boggioni,Andrea Papini,Barbara Coletti et al.
Marco Boggioni et al.
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) and their direct ancestors are characterized by a number of derived cranial and postcranial morphological features. Many of these traits first appear in European Middle Pleistocene populations, likely as...
Judith M Burkart,Paola Cerrito,Giancarlo Natalucci et al.
Judith M Burkart et al.
Unlike any other great ape, humans give birth to large, secondarily altricial babies, show precocial social development, have bigger brains that require a long maturation period, and engage in cooperative breeding (CB). These traits, which ...
The Cognitive Foundations of Ritual Monumentality: Multicausal Pathways to the Neolithic in Southwest Asia [0.03%]
认知基础与仪式性纪念物的形成：关于西亚新石器时代的多因果路径理论
Tolga Yıldız
Tolga Yıldız
This article reconceptualizes the Neolithic transformation in Southwest Asia as a cumulative and recursive process shaped by the interplay of symbolic cognition, ecological thresholds, ritual innovation, and demographic intensification. Dep...
Gerald E Loeb
Gerald E Loeb
The unique intellectual and cultural attributes of Homo sapiens that arose during the Middle Stone Age are often ascribed to positive evolutionary development of novel physical or personality traits, but attempts to correlate cultural with ...
Revisiting "Tool" for a More Unified and Holistic Definition in Animal Behavior [0.03%]
从动物行为的角度重新审视“工具”的定义，寻求更加统一和全面的解释
Jayashree Mazumder,Parth Randhir Chauhan
Jayashree Mazumder
Understanding the concept of "tool" is vital for the study of animal behavior and cognition. The definition of what exactly constitutes a tool, its characteristics, and the corresponding behaviors is pivotal yet challenging due to its often...
The Multivariate Basis of Human Brain Evolution: The Prerequisites of Fire Control and Cooking [0.03%]
人类大脑进化的多变量基础：控制用火和烹饪的先决条件
Marcelo O Ortells,Stephon Stewart
Marcelo O Ortells
This study investigates the evolutionary origins of the human brain, focusing on the trend of increasing size in hominins, while also addressing exceptions such as Homo naledi, Homo floresiensis, and the recent reduction observed in Homo sa...
Post-pandemic Inequalities: Evolutionary Anthropological Frameworks for Long-Term Impacts of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的不平等：1918年流感大流行长期影响的进化人类学框架
Taylor P van Doren
Taylor P van Doren
The 1918 influenza pandemic was a major mortality event that is well understood in its proximate heterogeneous impacts, but its long-term impacts on inequality are less understood. Within anthropology, evolutionary frameworks such as the ep...
Emma Vitale,Tatiana R Feuerborn,Matthew Walls
Emma Vitale
Since the Late Pleistocene, humans and dogs have coevolved in the Arctic, forming a symbiotic relationship essential to survival, mobility, and adaptation. Archeological evidence shows dogs were used as traction animals by the Early Holocen...
Not by Selection Alone: Expanding the Scope of Gene-Culture Coevolution [0.03%]
不止是自然选择——扩大基因文化共同进化的研究范围
Sven M Kasser,Kevin N Lala,Laura Fortunato et al.
Sven M Kasser et al.
Gene-culture coevolution (GCC)-an ambitious synthesis of biological and social sciences is often used to explain the evolution of key human traits. Despite the framework's broad conceptual appeal however, empirical evidence is often perceiv...