Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions

A Gopnik - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
I argue that the evolution of our life history, with its distinctively long, protected human
childhood, allows an early period of broad hypothesis search and exploration, before the …

Imaging and image-based fluid transport modeling at the pore scale in geological materials: A practical introduction to the current state-of-the-art

T Bultreys, W De Boever, V Cnudde - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fluid flow and mass transport in geological materials are crucial in diverse Earth science
applications. To fully understand the behavior of geological materials in this context, the …

Epistemic petrification and the restoration of epistemic trust: A new conceptualization of borderline personality disorder and its psychosocial treatment

P Fonagy, P Luyten, E Allison - Journal of personality disorders, 2015 - Guilford Press
A new developmental model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its treatment is
advanced based on evolutionary considerations concerning the role of attachment …

Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development

CW Kuzawa, HT Chugani… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The high energetic costs of human brain development have been hypothesized to explain
distinctive human traits, including exceptionally slow and protracted preadult growth …

Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

KE Langergraber, K Prüfer, C Rowney… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Fossils and molecular data are two independent sources of information that should in
principle provide consistent inferences of when evolutionary lineages diverged. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of Neanderthal introgression to modern human traits

PF Reilly, A Tjahjadi, SL Miller, JM Akey, S Tucci - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives, lived in western Eurasia from 400,000 years ago
until they went extinct around 40,000 years ago. DNA retrieved from ancient specimens …

[图书][B] Shared reality: What makes us strong and tears us apart

ET Higgins - 2019 - books.google.com
What does it mean to be human? Why do we feel and behave in the ways that we do? The
classic answer is that we have a special kind of intelligence. But to understand what we are …

A Neandertal dietary conundrum: Insights provided by tooth enamel Zn isotopes from Gabasa, Spain

K Jaouen, V Villalba-Mouco… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The characterization of Neandertals' diets has mostly relied on nitrogen isotope analyses of
bone and tooth collagen. However, few nitrogen isotope data have been recovered from …

Tooth development in human evolution and bioarchaeology

S Hillson - 2014 - books.google.com
Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When
and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had …

[图书][B] The rise of Homo sapiens: The evolution of modern thinking

FL Coolidge, TG Wynn - 2018 - books.google.com
The Rise of Homo sapiens provides an unrivalled interdisciplinary introduction to the subject
of hominin cognitive evolution that is appropriate for general audiences and students in …