Alex Tsompanidis,Graham J Burton,Simon Baron-Cohen et al.
Alex Tsompanidis et al.
The evolution of the human brain has long been framed in terms of sexual selection, with an emphasis on consistent but small on-average volumetric differences between males and females. In this review, we present new molecular, genetic and ...
James F O&#x;Connell,Kristen Hawkes,Nicholas Blurton Jones
James F O&#x;Connell
The hunting hypothesis holds that ancestral human males favored their own mates and children in sharing meat gained from big game hunting, a practice said to have led to the origin of nuclear families and related changes in life history. Da...
Investigating Development in Human Evolution: Specificities, Challenges, and Opportunities [0.03%]
探究人类进化中的发展问题：特殊性、挑战与机遇
Mathilde Lequin,Thomas Colard,Antony Colombo et al.
Mathilde Lequin et al.
Unlike developmental biologists, paleoanthropologists primarily investigate development using skeletal remains, specifically fossilized and already-formed bones and teeth. Focusing on peri- and/or postnatal growth, they reconstruct developm...
Jaw-Muscle Structure and Function in Primates: Insights Into Muscle Performance and Feeding-System Behaviors [0.03%]
灵长类的嚼肌结构与功能：关于肌肉表现和进食系统行为的启示
Andrea B Taylor,Megan A Holmes,Myra F Laird et al.
Andrea B Taylor et al.
The jaw-adductor muscles drive the movements and forces associated with primate feeding behaviors such as biting and chewing as well as social signaling behaviors such as wide-mouth canine display. The past several decades have seen a rise ...
Birth of Paranthropus [0.03%]
傍人属的起源
Bernard Wood,Daniel Biggs
Bernard Wood
Robert Broom, who is best known among vertebrate paleontologists for his research on mammal-like reptiles, was drawn into paleoanthropology because of his defense of Raymond Dart's interpretation of the Taung infant skull. Our contribution ...
Evolution of Human Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Hypotheses and Comparative Evidence [0.03%]
阿尔茨海默病易感性的进化：假说与比较证据综述
Isabel August,Pascal Gagneux,Katerina Semendeferi et al.
Isabel August et al.
Primates rely on memory to navigate both physical and social environments and in humans, loss of memory function leads to devastating consequences. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease which begins by impacting memory fun...
Comparative Context of Hard-Tissue Sexual Dimorphism in Early Hominins: Implications for Alpha Taxonomy [0.03%]
早期人属性别二态性的比较背景及其对基本分类学的启示
Katharine L Balolia,Bernard Wood
Katharine L Balolia
Sexual dimorphism is one of the main factors confounding attempts to generate sound alpha taxonomic hypotheses in the early hominin fossil record. To better understand how between-sex variation may confound alpha taxonomic assessments, we c...
A biochronological date of 3.6 million years for "Little Foot" (StW 573, Australopithecus prometheus from Sterkfontein, South Africa) [0.03%]
南非斯特克方丹遗址“小脚”（圣武573，南方古猿鲍氏种）约360万年前的生物年代测定日期
Francis Thackeray
Francis Thackeray
A debate has developed with regard to geological ages of hominin fossils attributed to Australopithecus africanus and Australopithecus prometheus in South African Plio-Pleistocene cave deposits. For the Sterkfontein caves (Members 2 and 4),...
Adriano R Lameira
Adriano R Lameira
A kiss has been a signal of special affection across continents and cultures for millennia. Between times and peoples, social norms invariably prescribe kissing to specific affiliations and contexts, implying deeper biological bases. Why th...