From the Alps to the Mediterranean and beyond: genetics, environment, culture and the "impossible beauty" of Italy [0.03%]
从阿尔卑斯山到地中海及更远：意大利的遗传、环境、文化和“不可能的美丽”
Paolo Anagnostou,Francesco Montinaro,Marco Sazzini et al.
Paolo Anagnostou et al.
Since prehistoric times, Italy has represented a bridge between peoples, genes and cultures. Its peculiar geographical position explains why: it is located in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, flanked by the Balkans and the Hellenic Peni...
Chris Stringer
Chris Stringer
In this contribution I will review the development of ideas about a recent African origin for our species over the last 50 years, starting from the time of my PhD in the early 1970s. I will examine the instructive and quite different interp...
Anne-Maria Fehn,Beatriz Amorim,Jorge Rocha
Anne-Maria Fehn
The present-day diversity of southern African populations was shaped by the confluence of three major pre-historic settlement layers associated with distinct linguistic strata: i) an early occupation by foragers speaking languages of the Kx...
Ian Tattersall
Ian Tattersall
Paleoanthropology's relationship with evolutionary theory has not been entirely happy. The anatomists who dominated paleoanthropology for its first century had little interest in biological diversity and its causes, or in hominins' place in...
Seasonal resource categorisation and behavioral adaptation among chimpanzees: Implications for early hominin carnivory [0.03%]
黑猩猩的季节性资源分类和行为适应对早期人科动物食肉行为的意义
James Clark,Gonzalo Linares-Matás
James Clark
Seasonality plays a critical role in determining the yearly dietary variability of many nonhuman primates living in tropical and subtropical environments. Much previous research has emphasised the seasonal importance of both preferred resou...
Daniela Eugenia Rosso
Daniela Eugenia Rosso
Colour strongly shapes our perception of the world and plays a main role in the emergence of language and in the transmission of information. It has been shown that systematic use of ochre, along with other cultural traits that reflect cogn...
Alighieri's Paradiso, archeoprimatology, and the "blue" monkeys of Thera and Crete: A comment on Masseti (2021) [0.03%]
阿利吉耶里《天堂》、考古古生物学以及特拉和克里的“蓝猴”：评论马斯塞蒂（2021）文章
Bernardo Urbani,Dionisios Youlatos,Julia Binnberg
Bernardo Urbani
Middle and Upper Paleolithic occupations of Fumane Cave (Italy): a geoarchaeological investigation of the anthropogenic features [0.03%]
意大利Fumane洞穴中、上旧石器时代的居住情况：人类活动遗迹的地球考古学研究
Diana Marcazzan,Christopher E Miller,Bertrand Ligouis et al.
Diana Marcazzan et al.
Here we present the results of a microcontextual analysis of purported combustion features recovered from Middle and Upper Paleolithic occupations at the cave site of Fumane, Italy. Our analyses, which integrate micromorphology with organic...
What are Jews: interrogating genetic studies and the reification of race [0.03%]
犹太人是什么：对基因研究和种族实在论的质疑
Noa Sophie Kohler
Noa Sophie Kohler
Scientific studies on the genetic proximity of Jews undertake to shed light on "who or what Jews really are". However, various scientists and scholars have warned that such studies reify racial thinking. This essay delineates and contextual...