The primitive brain of early Homo

MS Ponce de León, T Bienvenu, A Marom, S Engel… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The brains of modern humans differ from those of great apes in size, shape, and cortical
organization, notably in frontal lobe areas involved in complex cognitive tasks, such as …

At the root of the mammalian mind: The sensory organs, brain and behavior of pre-mammalian synapsids

J Benoit, KN Dollman, RMH Smith… - Progress in Brain Research, 2023 - Elsevier
All modern mammals are descendants of the paraphyletic non-mammaliaform Synapsida,
colloquially referred to as the “mammal-like reptiles.” It has long been assumed that these …

[图书][B] The archaeology of southern Africa

P Mitchell - 2024 - books.google.com
Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

[HTML][HTML] Biomechanics and the origins of human bipedal walking: The last 50 years

RH Crompton, W Sellers, K Davids, J McClymont - Journal of biomechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
Motion analysis, as applied to evolutionary biomechanics, has experienced its own
evolution over the last 50 years. Here we review how an ever-increasing fossil record …

[PDF][PDF] The primitive brain of early Homo

MSP De Leon, T Bienvenu, A Marom, S Engel… - Science, 2021 - researchgate.net
The brains of modern humans differ from those of great apes in size, shape, and cortical
organization, notably in frontal lobe areas involved in complex cognitive tasks, such as …

Are endocasts reliable proxies for brains? A 3D quantitative comparison of the extant human brain and endocast

J Dumoncel, G Subsol, S Durrleman… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Endocasts (ie, replicas of the inner surface of the bony braincase) constitute a critical proxy
for qualifying and quantifying variations in brain shape and organization in extinct taxa. In …

The brain of Homo habilis: Three decades of paleoneurology

E Bruner, A Beaudet - Journal of Human Evolution, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In 1987, Phillip Tobias published a comprehensive anatomical analysis of the
endocasts attributed to Homo habilis, discussing issues dealing with brain size, sulcal …

The skull of StW 573, a 3.67 ma Australopithecus prometheus skeleton from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa

RJ Clarke, K Kuman - Journal of Human Evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
Here we present the first full anatomical description of the 3.67 million-year-old
Australopithecus skull StW 573 that was recovered with its skeleton from the Sterkfontein …

Excavation, reconstruction and taphonomy of the StW 573 Australopithecus prometheus skeleton from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa

RJ Clarke - Journal of Human Evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
The first known fossil of an adult Australopithecus was the crushed cranium TM 1511 found
by Robert Broom at Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa, on the 17th of August, 1936 (Broom …

What we see is what we touch? Sex estimation on the pelvis in virtual anthropology

S Braun, N Schwendener, F Kanz, S Lösch… - International journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Computed tomography (CT) scans are a convenient means to study 3D
reconstructions of bones. However, errors associated with the different nature of the …