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Miki Ben-Dor
Researcher at Tel Aviv University
Publications - 11
Citations - 261
Miki Ben-Dor is an academic researcher from Tel Aviv University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human evolution & Geology. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications receiving 177 citations.
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Man the fat hunter: the demise of Homo erectus and the emergence of a new hominin lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr) Levant.
TL;DR: It is shown that rather than a matter of preference, H. erectus in the Levant was dependent on both elephants and fat for his survival, and a bio-energetic model is employed to present a hypothesis that the disappearance of the elephants was the evolutionary drive behind the emergence of the lighter, more agile, and cognitively capable hominins.
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Neandertals' large lower thorax may represent adaptation to high protein diet.
TL;DR: It appears likely that the enlarged inferior section of the Neandertals thorax and possibly, in part, also his wide pelvis, represented an adaptation to provide encasement for those enlarged organs.
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The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reconstruct the trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene by reviewing evidence for the impact of the HTL on the biological, ecological, and behavioral systems derived from various existing studies.
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The importance of large prey animals during the Pleistocene and the implications of their extinction on the use of dietary ethnographic analogies
Miki Ben-Dor,Ran Barkai +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the ecological and technological records of the Hadza and Ju/Hoansi (!Kung), two recent hunter-gatherers' groups that dominate the literature as acceptable ethnographic analogs for Paleolithic Africa.
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Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of hunting down the body size distribution
TL;DR: This article examined the causes of Pleistocene extinctions in the Southern Levant, and their subsequent effect on local hominin food spectra, by examining faunal remains in archaeological sites across the last 1.5 million years.