The University of Liverpool Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Series: Transcending the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
利物浦大学进化人类学研讨会系列:超越COVID-19大流行带来的限制
Lucy Timbrell,Carys Phillips
Lucy Timbrell
Cyril C Grueter,Michael L Wilson
Cyril C Grueter
Decades of research have led to a solid understanding of the social systems of gregarious apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and gibbons. As field studies have increasingly collected data from multiple neighboring habituated groups, gene...
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...