The emergence of human uniqueness: Characters underlying behavioral modernity

K Hill, M Barton, AM Hurtado - … Anthropology: Issues, News …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although scientists are aware that humans share the same biological heritage as do all
other organisms on the planet, the reliance of Homo sapiens on culture and cooperation has …

Human evolution out of Africa: the role of refugia and climate change

JR Stewart, CB Stringer - science, 2012‏ - science.org
Although an African origin of the modern human species is generally accepted, the
evolutionary processes involved in the speciation, geographical spread, and eventual …

The origin of Neandertals

JJ Hublin - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009‏ - pnas.org
Western Eurasia yielded a rich Middle (MP) and Late Pleistocene (LP) fossil record
documenting the evolution of the Neandertals that can be analyzed in light of recently …

Evolution of the human life cycle

B Bogin, BH Smith - American Journal of Human Biology: The …, 1996‏ - Wiley Online Library
Social mammals have three basic stages of postnatal development: infant, juvenile, and
adult. Some species also have a brief female post‐reproductive stage. The human life cycle …

Dental evidence for ontogenetic differences between modern humans and Neanderthals

TM Smith, P Tafforeau, DJ Reid, J Pouech… - Proceedings of the …, 2010‏ - pnas.org
Humans have an unusual life history, with an early weaning age, long childhood, late first
reproduction, short interbirth intervals, and long lifespan. In contrast, great apes wean later …

Hominin life history: reconstruction and evolution

SL Robson, B Wood - Journal of Anatomy, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this review we attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hominin life history from
extant and fossil evidence. We utilize demographic life history theory and distinguish life …

Energetic consequences of thermal and nonthermal food processing

RN Carmody, GS Weintraub, RW Wrangham - Proceedings of the …, 2011‏ - pnas.org
Processing food extensively by thermal and nonthermal techniques is a unique and
universal human practice. Food processing increases palatability and edibility and has been …

Barium distributions in teeth reveal early-life dietary transitions in primates

C Austin, TM Smith, A Bradman, K Hinde… - Nature, 2013‏ - nature.com
Early-life dietary transitions reflect fundamental aspects of primate evolution and are
important determinants of health in contemporary human populations,. Weaning is critical to …

Human brain evolution: transcripts, metabolites and their regulators

M Somel, X Liu, P Khaitovich - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013‏ - nature.com
What evolutionary events led to the emergence of human cognition? Although the genetic
differences separating modern humans from both non-human primates (for example …

Neanderthal brain size at birth provides insights into the evolution of human life history

MS Ponce de León, L Golovanova… - Proceedings of the …, 2008‏ - pnas.org
From birth to adulthood, the human brain expands by a factor of 3.3, compared with 2.5 in
chimpanzees [DeSilva J and Lesnik J (2006) Chimpanzee neonatal brain size: Implications …