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...
Back(s) to basics: The concept of backing in stone tool technologies for tracing hominins' technical innovations [0.03%]
回归基本：石器技术中“去皮”概念的溯源以追溯人类的技术创新
Davide Delpiano,Brad Gravina,Marco Peresani
Davide Delpiano
The evolution of Paleolithic stone tool technologies is characterized by gradual increase in technical complexity along with changes in the composition of assemblages. In this respect, the emergence of retouched-backed tools is an important...
Were fewer boys born in the United States during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic? A test of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis [0.03%]
在美国COVID-19大流行初期的几个月里出生的男孩减少了吗？对崔弗斯-威尔lard假说的一种检验
Peyton Cleaver,Amy L Non
Peyton Cleaver
The Trivers-Willard hypothesis predicts that mammalian parents in poor environmental conditions will favor the offspring sex with more reliable chance of reproductive success, which in humans is females. Three months following the onset of ...
Natalie G Mueller,John C Willman
Natalie G Mueller
We propose that domestication is the result of interspecies cooperative breeding. Considering domestication as an outcome of cooperative breeding can explain how domestication occurs in both plants and animals, encompass cases of domesticat...
José M López-Rey,Manuel D D&#x;Angelo Del Campo,Verónica Seldes et al.
José M López-Rey et al.
Up to now, Allen and Bergmann's rules have been studied in modern humans by analyzing differences in limb length, height, or body mass. However, there are no publications studying the effects of latitude in the 3D configuration of the ribca...
On the scientific credibility of paleoanthropology: Reply to Villmoare and Kimbel [0.03%]
对古人类学科学性的评论——回应维尔莫和金贝尔
Richard J Smith,Bernard Wood
Richard J Smith
Smith and Wood reply to Villmoare and Kimbel regarding the scientific credibility of problems in paleoanthropology that require causal explanations for unique historical events. ...
Clara L Mariencheck
Clara L Mariencheck
Vertebrates exhibit sexual dimorphism in response to infectious diseases and in morbidity and mortality rates to various pathogens. Females are generally more immunocompetent than males, despite their increased reproductive burden and the i...
Brian Villmoare,William Kimbel
Brian Villmoare
Smith and Smith and Wood proposed that the human fossil record offers special challenges for causal hypotheses because "unique" adaptations resist the comparative method. We challenge their notions of "uniqueness" and offer a refutation of ...