Fossil apes and human evolution

S Almécija, AS Hammond, NE Thompson, KD Pugh… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Ever since the writings of Darwin and Huxley, humans' place in nature
relative to apes (nonhuman hominoids) and the geographic origins of the human lineage …

Complex systems approach to natural language

T Stanisz, S Drożdż, J Kwapień - Physics Reports, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The science of complexity aims to answer the question of what rules nature chooses when
assembling the basic constituents of matter and energy into structures and dynamical …

[كتاب][B] Decolonizing extinction: The work of care in orangutan rehabilitation

JS Parreñas - 2018‏ - books.google.com
In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which
colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human …

A revised timescale for human evolution based on ancient mitochondrial genomes

Q Fu, A Mittnik, PLF Johnson, K Bos, M Lari… - Current biology, 2013‏ - cell.com
Background Recent analyses of de novo DNA mutations in modern humans have suggested
a nuclear substitution rate that is approximately half that of previous estimates based on …

Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

KE Langergraber, K Prüfer, C Rowney… - Proceedings of the …, 2012‏ - pnas.org
Fossils and molecular data are two independent sources of information that should in
principle provide consistent inferences of when evolutionary lineages diverged. Here we …

Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

A Scally, JY Dutheil, LDW Hillier, GE Jordan… - Nature, 2012‏ - nature.com
Gorillas are humans' closest living relatives after chimpanzees, and are of comparable
importance for the study of human origins and evolution. Here we present the assembly and …

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

TE Cerling, JG Wynn, SA Andanje, MI Bird, DK Korir… - nature, 2011‏ - nature.com
The role of African savannahs in the evolution of early hominins has been debated for nearly
a century. Resolution of this issue has been hindered by difficulty in quantifying the fraction …

The importance of dietary carbohydrate in human evolution

K Hardy, J Brand-Miller, KD Brown… - … Quarterly review of …, 2015‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
We propose that plant foods containing high quantities of starch were essential for the
evolution of the human phenotype during the Pleistocene. Although previous studies have …

Variation in the molecular clock of primates

P Moorjani, CEG Amorim, PF Arndt… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
Events in primate evolution are often dated by assuming a constant rate of substitution per
unit time, but the validity of this assumption remains unclear. Among mammals, it is well …

[كتاب][B] Human evolutionary genetics: origins, peoples and disease

M Jobling, C Tyler-Smith - 2019‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …