Great apes, our closest living relatives, live longer and mature later than most other
mammals and modern humans are even later‐maturing and potentially longer‐lived …

In this review we attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hominin life history from
extant and fossil evidence. We utilize demographic life history theory and distinguish life …

A contemporary classic about love now completely revised and updated. From love at first
sight and infidelity to hook-up culture and “slow love,” Dr. Helen Fisher, the biological …

Some of the most long‐standing questions in paleoanthropology concern how and why
human bipedalism evolved. Over the last century, many hypotheses have been offered on …

Context and interpretation. Writing a study of infancy and infant death. The power of the
contradictory infant: defining infancy. Identifying the gap in archaeology; why an interest in …

In the 1970s, mid‐Pliocene hominin fossils were found at the sites of Hadar in Ethiopia and
Laetoli in Tanzania. These samples constituted the first substantial evidence for hominins …

Classical physics states that physical reality is local--a point in space cannot influence
another point beyond a relatively short distance. However, In 1997, experiments were …

Hominid evolution is marked by very significant increase in relative brain size. Because
relative brain size has been linked to energetic requirements it is possible to look at the …

Abstract Development of the dentition is critically integrated into the life cycle in living
mammals. Recent work on dental development has given rise to three separate lines of …

Two new developments promise to greatly improve our ability to reconstruct the evolution of
the human life cycle: 1. the introduction of the comparative methodology of life history into …