abstract：:By investigating similarity in cranial covariation patterns, it is possible to locate underlying functional and developmental causes for the patterning, and to make inferences about the evolutionary forces that have acted to produce the patterns. Furthermore, establishing where these covariation patterns may diverge i...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Ackermann RR

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report the first occurrence of an endemic African plesiadapiform primate from the early-middle Eocene locality of Glib Zegdou (Hammada du Dra, Algeria). Dralestes (new genus) is a very specialized taxon, and its closest known relative is the enigmatic and controversial genus Azibius from Gour Lazib (H...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Tabuce R,Mahboubi M,Tafforeau P,Sudre J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular data suggest that humans are more closely related to chimpanzees than either is to the gorillas, yet one finds the closest similarity in craniofacial morphology to be among the great apes to the exclusion of humans. To clarify how and when these differences arise in ontogeny, we studied ontogenetic trajector...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Mitteroecker P,Gunz P,Bernhard M,Schaefer K,Bookstein FL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive neuropsychology, cognitive anthropology, and cognitive archaeology are combined to yield a picture of Neandertal cognition in which expert performance via long-term working memory is the centerpiece of problem solving. This component of Neandertal cognition appears to have been modern in scope. However, Nean...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Wynn T,Coolidge FL

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional wisdom concerning the extinction of Paranthropus suggests that these species developed highly derived morphologies as a consequence of specializing on a diet consisting of hard and/or low-quality food items. It goes on to suggest that these species were so specialized or stenotopic that they were unable t...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Wood B,Strait D

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stratigraphy of Tabun Cave (Mt. Carmel), which comprises one of the longest sequences of Lower and Middle Paleolithic of the Near East, is widely used as a reference in debates on the evolution of Paleolithic industries and on the origin of modern humans and their relationship to the Neandertals. Considering the m...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Mercier N,Valladas H

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent success in the amplification of ancient DNA (aDNA) from fossil humans has led to calls for further tests to be carried out on similar material. However, there has been little systematic research on the survival of DNA in the fossil record, even though the environment of the fossil is known to be of paramount im...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Smith CI,Chamberlain AT,Riley MS,Stringer C,Collins MJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enamel fragment from the Border Cave 5 specimen was analysed with non-destructive ESR combined with laser ablation ICP-MS for uranium profiling. We obtained an age of 74+/-5 ka which fits exactly into the chronological framework that has been previously established for Border Cave by a variety of dating techniques....

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Grün R,Beaumont P,Tobias PV,Eggins S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a steeply sloping or depressed nasal floor within the nasal cavity of Neandertals is frequently mentioned as a likely specialization or autapomorphy. The depressed nasal floor has also been seen as contributing to a relatively more capacious nasal cavity in Neandertals, which is tied to cold-climate re...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Franciscus RG

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An aeolian sand unit overlies the Middle Stone Age deposits at Blombos Cave on the southern Cape coast. These deposits contained culturally-important artefacts, including bone tools and pieces of engraved ochre, as well as a large number of worked lithics. The aeolian sand and two other remnants of the sand dune forme...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Jacobs Z,Wintle AG,Duller GA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New radiocarbon dates from the sites of Bockstein-Törle, Geissenklösterle, Hohle Fels, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Sirgenstein, and Vogelherd in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany indicate that the Aurignacian of the region spans the period from ca. 40-30ka BP. If the situation at Vogelherd, in which skeletal remains fr...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Conard NJ,Bolus M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of the Neanderthal bony labyrinth, a structure located inside the petrous temporal bone. Fifteen Neanderthal specimens are compared with a Holocene human sample, as well as with a small number of European Middle Pleistocene hominins, and early anatomically moder...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Spoor F,Hublin JJ,Braun M,Zonneveld F

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations into the evolution of the primate brain have tended to neglect the role of connectivity in determining which brain structures have changed in size, focusing instead on changes in the size of the whole brain or of individual brain structures, such as the neocortex, in isolation. We show that the primate ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Whiting BA,Barton RA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fashioning of stone inserts for composite tools by blunting flakes and blades is a technique usually associated with Late Pleistocene modern humans. Recent reports from two sites in south central Africa (Twin Rivers and Kalambo Falls) suggest that this backed tool technology originated in the later Middle Pleistoc...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Barham L

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The palaeoecology of the fauna from the Ndolanya Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania, has been analysed to reconstruct the environment of this 2.6 Ma site. Community profiles have been constructed in relation to three variables that carry ecological meaning: body weight, locomotor adaptations and feeding preferences. Comparing th...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Kovarovic K,Andrews P,Aiello L

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several researchers have investigated, or commented on, the relative placement of the hominin mandibular fossa with regard to brain expansion and masticatory function. Two confounding factors are identified in this previous work. First, a number of different measurement techniques have been applied, confusing comparis...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Sherwood RJ,Rowley RB,Ward SC

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies on Pleistocene samples have shown that within-group cranial variation was greater than that seen today. The three anatomically modern Upper Cave crania (UC 101, UC 102, and UC 103) from Zhoukoudian, China provide one of the best samples available for addressing the issue of the antiquity of the modern...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Cunningham DL,Wescott DJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretations of faunal assemblages from the late Miocene Mpesida Beds in the Tugen Hills of the Central Kenyan Rift Valley have figured prominently in discussions of faunal turnover and establishment of the modern East African communities. These faunal changes have important implications for the divergence of the h...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Kingston JD,Fine Jacobs B,Hill A,Deino A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic relationships of the late Eocene anthropoids Catopithecus browni and Proteopithecus sylviae are currently a matter of debate, with opinion divided as to whether these taxa are stem or crown anthropoids. The phylogenetic position of Catopithecus is of particular interest, for, unlike the highly general...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Seiffert ER,Simons EL

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic excavations, begun in 1987, at the Valdegoba cave site in northern Spain have yielded the remains of five individuals associated with a Middle Paleolithic stone tool technology and Pleistocene fauna. A fragmentary mandible of an adolescent (VB1), preserving nearly a full set of teeth, exhibits a symphyseal ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Quam RM,Arsuaga JL,Bermúdez de Castro JM,Díez CJ,Lorenzo C,Carretero JM,García N,Ortega AI

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castel di Guido near Rome is one of the few open air Middle Pleistocene European sites that has yielded hominid skeletal remains associated with fossil fauna and Acheulean implements. The fossil hominid bones include two femoral shafts, respectively designated Castel di Guido-1 (CdG-1) and CdG-2, an occipital fragment...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Mariani-Costantini R,Ottini L,Caramiello S,Palmirotta R,Mallegni F,Rossi A,Frati L,Capasso L

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of a decade of progress in ESR dating we have revised the ESR chronology of Border Cave. A detailed gamma ray survey in 1994 and newly calculated beta attenuation data led to total dose rate estimations that are between 0 and 30% smaller than previously estimated. Accordingly, the resulting ESR age estimates a...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Grün R,Beaumont P

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two fragments of a hominin tooth (Australopithecus robustus) and two bovid teeth from the Hanging Remnant of the Swartkrans Formation were analysed with ESR. Research was complicated by the fact that the samples came from a curated collection and their precise provenance is unknown. The environmental dose rate was rec...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Curnoe D,Grün R,Taylor L,Thackeray F

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of missing data is common in all fields of science. Various methods of estimating missing values in a dataset exist, such as deletion of cases, insertion of sample mean, and linear regression. Each approach presents problems inherent in the method itself or in the nature of the pattern of missing data. We ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Holt B,Benfer RA Jr

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first omomyine petrosals, those of Omomys carteri, are described. Omomys probably had a tympanic bulla and canals for the intratympanic carotid circulation derived from the petrosal bone. The stapedial and promontory canals were complete, large and subequal. The posterior carotid foramen entered the bulla posterom...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Ross CF,Covert HH

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This analysis investigates the ancestry of a single modern human specimen from Australia, WLH-50 (Thorne et al., in preparation; Webb, 1989). Evaluating its ancestry is important to our understanding of modern human origins in Australasia because the prevailing models of human origins make different predictions for th...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Hawks J,Oh S,Hunley K,Dobson S,Cabana G,Dayalu P,Wolpoff MH

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Middle Stone Age (MSA) layers at Blombos Cave contain abundant bifacial Still Bay points, formal and ad hoc bone artefacts, and an intentionally incised bone piece. These artefacts add weight to arguments that some aspects of modern human behavior developed earlier in sub-Saharan Africa than elsewhere. Four human ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Grine FE,Henshilwood CS,Sealy JC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early hominid brain morphology is reassessed from endocasts of Australopithecus africanus and three species of Paranthropus, and new endocast reconstructions and cranial capacities are reported for four key specimens from the Paranthropus clade. The brain morphology of Australopithecus africanus appears more human lik...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Falk D,Redmond JC Jr,Guyer J,Conroy C,Recheis W,Weber GW,Seidler H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the extent to which the major dimensions of the cranial base (maximum length, maximum breadth, and flexion) interact with brain volume to influence major proportions of the neurocranium and face. A model is presented for developmental interactions that occur during ontogeny between the brain and th...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Lieberman DE,Pearson OM,Mowbray KM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Die Kelders Cave 1 (DK1) preserves a thick series of Middle Stone Age (MSA) horizons that date to a fairly short temporal interval sometime between about 60 and 80 ka ago. Twenty-seven human fossils, comprising 24 isolated teeth, a mandibular fragment, and two manual middle phalanges derive from seven of the 12 layers...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Grine FE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paleolandscape research tests for variation in the spatial distribution of hominid artefacts and establishes the association of hominid activities with paleoenvironmental features over distances of 100s to 1000s of meters. This approach requires (1) precise definition of narrow stratigraphic intervals based on sedimen...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Potts R,Behrensmeyer AK,Ditchfield P

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metric and shape features of the Lower Pleistocene mandibular specimen ATD605 from the level 6 of Gran Dolina site (Atapuerca, Spain) are compared with a large sample of fossil hominid mandibles. The analysis shows that ATD6-5 displays a generalized morphology largely shared with both African and European Lower and Mi...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Rosas A,Bermúdez de Castro JM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Atapuerca Site (Burgos, N. Spain) is an extensive archaeological site which has yielded numerous human fossil remains. The Gran Dolina section, one of the open-air excavations and subject of this study, consists of a sedimentary infilling of 18 m thickness in a gallery originated by karstification of the host Cret...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Parés JM,Pérez-González A

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excavations at Duinefontein (DFT) 2 near Cape Town, South Africa have recovered numerous stone artefacts and animal bones on an ancient surface sealed within iron-stained eolian sands. U-series analysis of an overlying calcrete places the sands before 150 ka ago, while the large mammal taxa imply an age between 400 an...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Klein RG,Avery G,Cruz-Uribe K,Halkett D,Hart T,Milo RG,Volman TP

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have carried out a comprehensive ESR and U-series dating study on the Lake Mungo 3 (LM3) human skeleton. The isotopic Th/U and Pa/U ratios indicate that some minor uranium mobilization may have occurred in the past. Taking such effects into account, the best age estimate for the human skeleton is obtained through t...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Thorne A,Grün R,Mortimer G,Spooner NA,Simpson JJ,McCulloch M,Taylor L,Curnoe D

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High dental metric variation in the large hominoid sample from the late Miocene site of Lufeng, China has been interpreted in two ways: (1) there are two morphologically similar species that broadly overlap in size, and (2) there is one species that is more highly sexually dimorphic in dental size, and perhaps in body...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Kelley J,Plavcan JM

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microstructural characteristics of enamel are minimally influenced by extrinsic / non-genomic factors and are thus potentially important in any attempt to establish the taxonomic attribution of Plio-Pleistocene hominids. The aim of this work is to assess the potential use of enamel microstructural characteristics in a...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Ramirez Rozzi F

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is structured in two parts. The first briefly reviews a number of lines of published evidence, including direct experimental evidence, supporting the contention that enamel microstructures are time dependent and have a regular periodicity. The second presents the results of a large-scale study designed to t...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： FitzGerald CM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ESR and U-series analyses of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Hexian which contained Homo erectus remains, illustrate the limited effectiveness of stand-alone ESR and U-series age estimates on faunal materials. The problem lies in the unknown U-uptake history causing very large uncertainties in the age res...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Grün R,Huang PH,Huang W,McDermott F,Thorne A,Stringer CB,Yan G

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the influence of dietary selection pressures in living and extinct primate taxa frequently interpret cranial diversity using a simple lever model. When this model is applied to functional or evolutionary questions, it is commonly assumed that the muscles of mastication vary little in activity during biting ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Spencer MA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00