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Hominin evolution

Nut Cracking Tools Used by Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Their Comparison with Early Stone Age Percussive Artefacts from Olduvai Gorge

Adrián Arroyo, Satoshi Hirata, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Ignacio de la Torre

Manual Loading Distribution During Carrying Behaviors: Implications for the Evolution of the Hominin Hand

Alastair J. M. Key

Measure, Then Show: Grasping Human Evolution Through an Inquiry-Based, Data-driven Hominin Skulls Lab

Chris N. Bayer, Michael Luberda

Seed Pubescence and Shape Modulate Adaptive Responses to Fire Cues

Susana Gómez-González, Fernando Ojeda, Patricio Torres-Morales, Jazmín E. Palma

Experimental Insights into the Cognitive Significance of Early Stone Tools

Mark W. Moore, Yinika Perston

Socially Enforced Nepotism: How Norms and Reputation Can Amplify Kin Altruism

Doug Jones

How Are Mate Preferences Linked with Actual Mate Selection? Tests of Mate Preference Integration Algorithms Using Computer Simulations and Actual Mating Couples

Daniel Conroy-Beam, David M. Buss

Talk the Walk: Does Socio-Cognitive Resource Reallocation Facilitate the Development of Walking?

Ronny Geva, Edna Orr

A Phylogenetic Comparative Study of Bantu Kinship Terminology Finds Limited Support for Its Co-Evolution with Social Organisation

Myrtille Guillon, Ruth Mace

Unique Dental Morphology of Homo floresiensis and Its Evolutionary Implications

Yousuke Kaifu, Reiko T. Kono, [ ... ], Rokus Due Awe

Papio Cranium from the Hominin-Bearing Site of Malapa: Implications for the Evolution of Modern Baboon Cranial Morphology and South African Plio-Pleistocene Biochronology

Christopher C. Gilbert, Christine M. Steininger, Job M. Kibii, Lee R. Berger

Male Homosexual Preference: Where, When, Why?

Julien Barthes, Pierre-André Crochet, Michel Raymond

Lemur Biorhythms and Life History Evolution

Russell T. Hogg, Laurie R. Godfrey, [ ... ], Timothy G. Bromage

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