Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: a complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia)

ORP Bininda-Emonds, JL Gittleman, A Purvis - Biological Reviews, 1999‏ - cambridge.org
One way to build larger, more comprehensive phylogenies is to combine the vast amount of
phylogenetic information already available. We review the two main strategies for …

Cooking as a biological trait

R Wrangham, NL Conklin-Brittain - … and Physiology Part A: Molecular & …, 2003‏ - Elsevier
No human foragers have been recorded as living without cooking, and people who choose
a 'raw-foodist'life-style experience low energy and impaired reproductive function. This …

Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories

K Hawkes, JF O'Connell, NGB Jones, H Alvarez… - Proceedings of the …, 1998‏ - pnas.org
Long postmenopausal lifespans distinguish humans from all other primates. This pattern
may have evolved with mother–child food sharing, a practice that allowed aging females to …

[ספר][B] Demography and evolutionary ecology of Hadza hunter-gatherers

NB Jones - 2016‏ - books.google.com
The Hadza, an ethnic group indigenous to northern Tanzania, are one of the few remaining
hunter-gatherer populations. Archaeology shows 130,000 years of hunting and gathering in …

Fasting season length sets temporal limits for global polar bear persistence

PK Molnár, CM Bitz, MM Holland, JE Kay… - Nature Climate …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) require sea ice for capturing seals and are expected to
decline range-wide as global warming and sea-ice loss continue,. Estimating when different …

The expensive brain: a framework for explaining evolutionary changes in brain size

K Isler, CP van Schaik - Journal of human evolution, 2009‏ - Elsevier
To explain variation in relative brain size among homoiothermic vertebrates, we propose the
Expensive Brain hypothesis as a unifying explanatory framework. It claims that the costs of a …

Lemur traits and Madagascar ecology: co** with an island environment

PC Wright - American journal of physical anthropology, 1999‏ - Wiley Online Library
The last decade's lemur research includes successes in discovering new living and extinct
species and learning about the distribution, biogeography, physiology, behavior, and …

Why do female primates have such long lifespans and so few babies? or Life in the slow lane

EL Charnov, D Berrigan - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues …, 1993‏ - Wiley Online Library
A major goal of life history studies is to identify and explain features of the life history of
individual species that follow broad rules across many groups of organisms, features that …

A theory of fertility and parental investment in traditional and modern human societies

H Kaplan - American Journal of Physical Anthropology: The …, 1996‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper has two interrelated goals. The first is to offer a general theory of fertility and
parental investment across a broad spectrum of human societies. The second is to provide a …

[ספר][B] Primate behavioral ecology

KB Strier - 2016‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …