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 …

Background Until recently, the evolution of the genus Homo has been interpreted in the
context of the onset of African aridity and the expansion of open grasslands. Homo erectus …

In The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child
psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and …

It has been 10 years since publication of the first edition ofSoils of the Past. In that time the
subject of paleopedology hasgrown rapidly, and established itself within the mainstream …

Environmental theories of African faunal evolution state that important evolutionary changes
during the Pliocene–Pleistocene interval (the last ca. 5.3 million years) were mediated by …

Current evidence suggests that all of the major events in hominin evolution have occurred in
East Africa. Over the last two decades, there has been intensive work undertaken to …

Development of the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) before 300,000 years ago raises the
question of how environmental change influenced the evolution of behaviors characteristic …

摘要主要评述了近年来泥河湾盆地磁性地层学的研究进展, 包括建立泥河湾组的磁性地层年代格
架, 厘定泥河湾动物群的时代和确定华北地区早期人类活动年代序列. 研究表明: 第一 …

In this paper it is proposed that the prefrontal lobe participates in two closely related but
different executive function abilities:(1)“metacognitive executive functions”: problem solving …

Variability selection (abbreviated as VS) is a process considered to link adaptive change to
large degrees of environment variability. Its application to hominid evolution is based, in …