Will you stop bugging me?: Malaria and the evolutionary challenge that won't go away [0.03%]
你能否别烦我了？——除疟疾外的进化挑战
Kenneth M Weiss,Daniel M Parker
Kenneth M Weiss
Pandora's growing box: Inferring the evolution and development of hominin brains from endocasts [0.03%]
潘多拉的盒子越来越大了：从颅内模推断类人古老人脑的进化和发育
Christoph Peter Eduard Zollikofer,Marcia Silvia Ponce De León
Christoph Peter Eduard Zollikofer
The brain of modern humans is an evolutionary and developmental outlier: At birth, it has the size of an adult chimpanzee brain and expands by a factor of 2 during the first postnatal year. Large neonatal brain size and rapid initial growth...
Seasonal mortality patterns in primates: implications for the interpretation of dental microwear [0.03%]
关于灵长类动物季节性死亡率模式的分析及其对微磨损研究的意义
Jan F Gogarten,Frederick E Grine
Jan F Gogarten
The microscopic traces of use wear on teeth have been extensively studied to provide information that will assist in elucidating the dietary habits of extinct hominin species. It has been amply documented that dental microwear provides info...
Little orphan's nanny: where do genes come from and who takes care of them? [0.03%]
孤儿的保姆：基因从哪里来又是谁在照看它们？
Kenneth M Weiss
Kenneth M Weiss
Ecological volatility and human evolution: a novel perspective on life history and reproductive strategy [0.03%]
生态变迁与人类进化：关于生命史和生殖策略的新视角
Jonathan C K Wells
Jonathan C K Wells
Humans are characterized by a suite of traits that seem to differentiate them profoundly from closely related apes such as the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang-utan. These traits include longevity, cooperative breeding, stacking of offspring,...
Adrienne L Zihlman
Adrienne L Zihlman
When "woman-the-gatherer" was first proposed as a counter to "man-the-hunter," we were only beginning to understand the many faces of primate females. In ensuing decades we have learned about the skills and talents of female chimpanzees in ...
David M Alba
David M Alba
Currently restricted to Southeast Asia and Africa, extant hominoids are the remnants of a group that was much more diverse during the Miocene. Apes initially diversified in Africa during the early Miocene, but by the middle Miocene they ext...
Erik R Seiffert
Erik R Seiffert
The peculiar mammalian fauna that inhabited Afro-Arabia during the Paleogene first came to the attention of the scientific community in the early part of the twentieth century, when Andrews1 and Schlosser2 published their landmark descripti...
Species diversity and postcranial anatomy of eocene primates from Shanghuang, China [0.03%]
中国上黄始新世灵长类动物的种类多样性及其后颅骨骼解剖学特征
Daniel L Gebo,Marian Dagosto,Xijun Ni et al.
Daniel L Gebo et al.
The middle Eocene Shanghuang fissure-fillings, located in southern Jiangsu Province in China near the coastal city of Shanghai (Fig. 1), contain a remarkably diverse array of fossil primates that provide a unique window into the complex rol...
Ian Tattersall
Ian Tattersall