Marlize Lombard,John J Shea
Marlize Lombard
Archeologists commonly suppose that among complex projectile weapons humans use as subsistence aids, the spearthrower-and-dart preceded bow-and-arrow use. And yet, neither ethnographic nor archeological records furnish any robust evidence f...
Birth of Australopithecus [0.03%]
南方古猿的出现
Paige Madison,Bernard Wood
Paige Madison
The announcement of a fossilized child's skull discovered in a quarry in 1924 sub-Saharan Africa might not have seemed destined to be a classic paper. This contribution focuses on anatomist Raymond Dart's 1925 paper in which he designated t...
Cooperation in large-scale human societies-What, if anything, makes it unique, and how did it evolve? [0.03%]
大规模人类社会中的合作有什么独特之处，它如何进化而来？
Simon T Powers,Carel P van Schaik,Laurent Lehmann
Simon T Powers
To resolve the major controversy about why prosocial behaviors persist in large-scale human societies, we propose that two questions need to be answered. First, how do social interactions in small-scale and large-scale societies differ? By ...
The Visible Ape Project: A free, comprehensive, web-based anatomical atlas for scientists and veterinarians designed to raise public awareness about apes [0.03%]
可见的大猩猩项目：一个免费的、综合的网络解剖图谱，旨在为科学家和兽医设计，并提高公众对大猩猩的认识
Nicole Barger,José Saúl Martín,Eve K Boyle et al.
Nicole Barger et al.
The Visible Ape Project (VAP) is a free online platform providing unprecedented access to a suite of resources designed to comprehensively illustrate and educate about the anatomy of our closest relatives, the apes. It contains photographs,...
Shyamalika Gopalan,Elizabeth G Atkinson,Laura T Buck et al.
Shyamalika Gopalan et al.
Questions surrounding the timing, extent, and evolutionary consequences of archaic admixture into human populations have a long history in evolutionary anthropology. More recently, advances in human genetics, particularly in the field of an...
Between a rock and a cold place: Neanderthal biocultural cold adaptations [0.03%]
进退维谷：尼安德特人的生物文化冷适应性
Cara Ocobock,Sarah Lacy,Alexandra Niclou
Cara Ocobock
A large body of work focuses on the unique aspects of Neanderthal anatomy, inferred physiology, and behavior to test the assumption that Neanderthals were hyper-adapted to living in cold environments. This research has expanded over the yea...
Scanning the human genome for "signatures" of positive selection: Transformative opportunities and ethical obligations [0.03%]
扫描人类基因组以寻找适应性进化"特征":变革性的机遇与伦理责任
Margarita Hernandez,George H Perry
Margarita Hernandez
The relationship history of evolutionary anthropology and genetics is complex. At best, genetics is a beautifully integrative part of the discipline. Yet this integration has also been fraught, with punctuated, disruptive challenges to dogm...
New horizons in reconstructing past human behavior: Introducing the "Tübingen University Validated Entheses-based Reconstruction of Activity" method [0.03%]
过去人类行为重建的新视角：“ tübingen大学肌腱末端遗迹行为重建法”的引入与验证
Fotios Alexandros Karakostis,Katerina Harvati
Fotios Alexandros Karakostis
An accurate reconstruction of habitual activities in past populations and extinct hominin species is a paramount goal of paleoanthropological research, as it can elucidate the evolution of human behavior and the relationship between culture...
Darice Westphal,Amanda N Mancini,Andrea L Baden
Darice Westphal
Landscape genetics is an emerging field that integrates population genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial statistics to investigate how geographical and environmental features and evolutionary processes such as gene flow, genetic drift, a...
Sepsis and the evolution of human increased sensitivity to lipopolysaccharide [0.03%]
感染性休克及人类脂多糖敏感度增强的演变过程研究
Jessica F Brinkworth,Negin Valizadegan
Jessica F Brinkworth
Among mammals, humans are exquisitely sensitive to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), an environmentally pervasive bacterial cell membrane component. Very small doses of LPS trigger powerful immune responses in humans and can even initiate symptoms ...