The connection between development and evolution has become the focus of an increasing
amount of research in recent years, and heterochrony has long been a key concept in this …

The duality of the skeleton as both a biological and cultural entity has formed the theoretical
basis of bioarchaeology. In recent years bioarchaeological studies have stretched the early …

The ability to recognize individuals is essential to many aspects of social behaviour, such as
the maintenance of stable social groups, parent–offspring or mate recognition, inbreeding …

Despite recent, compelling challenge, the evolution of Homo erectusis still commonly
attributed to big game hunting and/or scavenging and family provisioning by men. Here we …

A modern human-like sequence of dental development, as a proxy for the pace of life
history, is regarded as one of the diagnostic hallmarks of our own genus Homo,,. Brain size …

Evolutionary ecology and human behavior Page 1 Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior
Eric Alden Smith Bruce Winterhalder Page 2 Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior Page …

This text focuses on the principles and methods of using growth layers formed in teeth and
bones of mammals to make a judgement on essential traits of the animal's life history. In …

Ranging and residence patterns among early hominins have been indirectly inferred from
morphology,, stone-tool sourcing, referential models, and phylogenetic models,,. However …

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 …

Life-history traits correlate closely with dental growth, so differences in dental growth within
Homo can enable us to determine how somatic development has evolved and to identify …