Notable: Water shaped the moai placement on Rapa Nui
Notable paper: DiNapoli RJ, Lipo CP, Brosnan T, Hunt TL, Hixon S, Morrison AE, et al. (2019) Rapa Nui (Easter Island) monument (ahu) locations explained by ...
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Notable: Alzheimer’s risk and genetic background of ApoE
Notable paper: Rajabli F, Feliciano BE, Celis K, Hamilton-Nelson KL, Whitehead PL, Adams LD, et al. (2018) Ancestral origin of ApoE ε4 Alzheimer disease ris...
Notable: Female chimpanzees eat more meat when pregnant
Notable: O’Malley, R. C., Stanton, M. A., Gilby, I. C., Lonsdorf, E. V., Pusey, A., Markham, A. C., & Murray, C. M. (2016). Reproductive state and rank i...
Notable: Glyptodonts and megatheres were herbivores
Notable: Bocherens, Hervé, Martin Cotte, Ricardo A. Bonini, Pablo Straccia, Daniel Scian, Leopoldo Soibelzon, Francisco J. Prevosti. 2017. Isotopic insight o...
Notable: Scapula morphology in humans and African apes
Notable paper: Green, David J., Ted A. Spiewak, Brielle Seitelman and Philipp Gunz. 2016. Scapular shape of extant hominoids and the African ape/modern human...
Notable: Penguin population turnover from ancient DNA
Notable paper: Stefanie Grosser, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Christian N. K. Anderson, Ian W. G. Smith, R. Paul Scofield, Jonathan M. Waters. 2016. Invader or resid...
Notable: Genetic traces of early migration in Arabia
Notable paper: Rodriguez-Flores JL, Fakhro K, Agosto-Perez F, Ramstetter MD, Arbiza L, et al. 2016. Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split fr...
Notable: Mammoth hunters in the Arctic 45,000 years ago
Notable paper: Pitulko, V. V., Tikhonov, A. N., Pavlova, E. Y., Nikolskiy, P. A., Kuper, K. E., Polozov, R. N. 2016. Early human presence in the Arctic: Evid...
Notable: Beeswax found in Neolithic pottery vessels across Europe
Notable paper: Roffet-Salque, Mélanie et al. 2015. Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers. Nature 527: 226–230. doi:10.1038/natur...
Notable: Ancient Australians and baobab dispersal
Notable paper: Rangan H, Bell KL, Baum DA, Fowler R, McConvell P, et al. (2015) New Genetic and Linguistic Analyses Show Ancient Human Influence on Baobab Ev...
Notable: Inheritance of fitness in patrilineal societies
Notable paper: Heyer, E., Brandenburg, J.-T., Leonardi, M., Toupance, B., Balaresque, P., Hegay, T., Aldashev, A. and Austerlitz, F. (2015), Patrilineal popu...
Notable: Fat residues on elephant-butchering tools
Notable paper: Solodenko N, Zupancich A, Cesaro SN, Marder O, Lemorini C, et al. (2015) Fat Residue and Use-Wear Found on Acheulian Biface and Scraper Associ...
Notable: Brain growth in Homo erectus
Notable paper: Cofran, Z. and DeSilva, J. 2015. A neonatal perspective on Homo erectus brain growth. Journal of Human Evolution (in press) doi:10.1016/j.jhev...
Notable: Coevolution drives biological complexity
Notable paper: Zaman L, Meyer JR, Devangam S, Bryson DM, Lenski RE, et al. (2014) Coevolution Drives the Emergence of Complex Traits and Promotes Evolvabilit...
Notable: Easter island collapse was not so simple
Notable paper: Stevenson, Christopher M. et al. Variation in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) land use indicates production and population peaks prior to European co...
Notable: A tooth from West Turkana
Notable paper: Maddux, Scott C. et al. 2015. A 750,000 year old hominin molar from the site of Nadung’a, West Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution (in ...
Notable: Bigger groups make less social time for red colobus
Notable paper: Gogarten, J. F., Bonnell, T. R., Brown, L. M., Campenni, M., Wasserman, M. D., & Chapman, C. A. (2014). Increasing group size alters behav...