Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "hominin"

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    • Generation Times in Wild Chimpanzees and Gorillas Suggest Earlier Divergence Times in Great Ape and Human Evolution 

      Langergraber, Kevin E.; Prufer, Kay; Rowney, Carolyn; Boesch, Christophe; Crockford, Catherine; Fawcett, Katie; Inoue, Eiji; Inoue-Muruyama, Miho; Mitani, John C.; Muller, Martin N.; Robbins, Martha M.; Schubert, Grit; Stoinski, Tara S.; Viola, Bence; Watts, David; Wittig, Roman M.; Wrangham, Richard W.; Zuberbuhler, Klaus; Paabo, Svante; Vigilant, Linda (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012)
      Fossils and molecular data are two independent sources of information that should in principle provide consistent inferences of when evolutionary lineages diverged. Here we use an alternative approach to genetic inference ...

    • Phylogenetic Rate Shifts in Feeding Time During the Evolution of Homo 

      Organ, Chris Lee; Nunn, Charles Lindsay; Machanda, Zarin Pearl; Wrangham, Richard W. (National Academy of Sciences, 2011)
      Unique among animals, humans eat a diet rich in cooked and nonthermally processed food. The ancestors of modern humans who invented food processing (including cooking) gained critical advantages in survival and fitness ...

    • Predation by Female Chimpanzees: Toward an Understanding of Sex Differences in Meat Acquisition in the Last Common Ancestor of Pan and Homo 

      Gilby, Ian; Machanda, Zarin; O'Malley, Robert; Murray, Carson; Lonsdorf, Elizabeth; Walker, Kara; Mjungu, Deus; Otali, Emily; Muller, Martin; Emery Thompson, Melissa; Pusey, Anne; Wrangham, Richard (Elsevier BV, 2017-09)
      Among modern foraging societies, men hunt more than women, who mostly target relatively low-quality, reliable resources (i.e., plants). This difference has long been assumed to reflect human female reproductive constraints, ...