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 …

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 - National Acad Sciences
Fossils and molecular data are two independent sources of information that should in
principle provide consistent inferences of when evolutionary lineages diverged. Here we …

[图书][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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

[图书][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 …

A direct characterization of human mutation based on microsatellites

JX Sun, A Helgason, G Masson, SS Ebenesersdóttir… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Mutations are the raw material of evolution but have been difficult to study directly. We report
the largest study of new mutations to date, comprising 2,058 germline changes discovered …