More than 500,000 years of right-handedness in Europe

DW Frayer, M Lozano… - … : Asymmetries of Body …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Considerable research supports the high frequency of right-handedness in living Homo
sapiens, with worldwide rates of approximately nine right-for every one left-hander. Right …

Intelligence and handedness: Meta-analyses of studies on intellectually disabled, typically developing, and gifted individuals

M Papadatou-Pastou, DM Tomprou - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship between cerebral laterality and intelligence is important in
elucidating the neurological underpinnings of individual differences in cognitive abilities. A …

Beyond food: The multiple pathways for inclusion of materials into ancient dental calculus

A Radini, E Nikita, S Buckley… - American journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque) was first recognised as a potentially useful
archaeological deposit in the 1970s, though interest in human dental calculus as a resource …

Dental calculus reveals unique insights into food items, cooking and plant processing in prehistoric central Sudan

S Buckley, D Usai, T Jakob, A Radini, K Hardy - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Accessing information on plant consumption before the adoption of agriculture is
challenging. However, there is growing evidence for use of locally available wild plants from …

[图书][B] From hand to handle: the first industrial revolution

L Barham - 2013 - books.google.com
Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years
to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago …

Lethal interpersonal violence in the Middle Pleistocene

N Sala, JL Arsuaga, A Pantoja-Pérez, A Pablos… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Evidence of interpersonal violence has been documented previously in Pleistocene
members of the genus Homo, but only very rarely has this been posited as the possible …

Common variants in left/right asymmetry genes and pathways are associated with relative hand skill

WM Brandler, AP Morris, DM Evans, TS Scerri… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Humans display structural and functional asymmetries in brain organization, strikingly with
respect to language and handedness. The molecular basis of these asymmetries is …

[图书][B] The crucible of language: How language and mind create meaning

V Evans - 2015 - books.google.com
From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a
lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use …

Main anatomical characteristics of the hominin fossil humeri from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain: An update

JM Carretero, R García‐González… - The Anatomical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Some of the Sima de los Huesos (SH) humeri have been previously studied and described
elsewhere. Here we present an updated inventory and a review of the specimens recovered …

Variations and asymmetries in regional brain surface in the genus Homo

A Balzeau, RL Holloway, D Grimaud-Hervé - Journal of human evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
Paleoneurology is an important field of research within human evolution studies. Variations
in size and shape of an endocast help to differentiate among fossil hominin species whereas …