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Showing papers in "Journal of Human Evolution in 1978"


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TL;DR: In the first 18 months of life, gorilla and human infants follow much the same course of psychological development, but the nonhumans embark on this sooner, and generally finish sooner as discussed by the authors.

180 citations


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TL;DR: These observations suggest that, at least in aspects of sexual behavior, the pygmy chimpanzee displays greater malleability and greater dependencyupon complex non-verbal signaling than do those of any other living non-human primate.

124 citations


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TL;DR: This study argues strongly against the existence of a world-wide Neandertal grade or stage of human evolution and leads to several other inferences which must be verified by further work.

123 citations


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TL;DR: The tables here presented give the most probable values for stature and cranial capacity, drawn from regression lines calculated according to new data, which improves previous authors' formulas.

104 citations


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TL;DR: This article found that the repertoire of social object manipulation activities is greater in the swamp environment where troops are larger, there is greater social mobility, and the number of potential social interactions is greater.

85 citations


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TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis of the Swartkrans hominid material supports the allocation of the composite SK-847 cranium to the genus Homo rather than Paranthropus and suggests on the basis of synapomorphous features that two other crania from Member I, SK-27 and 47, should also be included in the hypodigm of this taxon.

78 citations


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TL;DR: Morphometric data on the wrist joints of hominoid taxa have been compared and man is relatively similar to African apes in this factor while Asian apes are at the opposite extreme; cercopithecoids appear to be roughly intermediate.

77 citations


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Tomoo Enomoto1
TL;DR: In this paper, sexual interaction patterns between both sexes in a Japanese monkey troop were classified into eight types by taking approach, following and stability of mounting series as indicators, which demonstrated the structure of social preference for the sexual partner.

75 citations


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Erik Trinkaus1
TL;DR: The Shanidar teeth, similar to those of other Neanderthals, are characterized by absolutely large anterior teeth and relatively large posterior molars in relation to recent humans and Upper Paleolithic hominids.

58 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial and temporal aspects of human morphological variation in India are discussed, and four morphological types (Australoids, Negritos, Mongoloids and Caucasoids) have been discerned in the contemporary Indian population.

53 citations


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G. Arnaud, S. Arnaud, A. Ascenzi1, E. Bonucci1, G. Graziani 
TL;DR: A multidisciplinary investigation on the state of preservation of the skeletal remains of three individuals who were apparently drowned while sailing in Arabian ships wrecked during the 10th century A.D. off the Mediterranean coast of France found that the bones were, in general, well preserved.

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TL;DR: In this paper, some statistical assumptions implicit in the application of canonical variates in biological anthropology are discussed and the important role of character correlation, and a possible partition into size and shape effects, are examined.

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TL;DR: The find from Bilzingsleben, which represents the forms of Homo erectus, represents evidence of the contemporary existence of two morphologically different species of man in the Middle Pleistocene in Europe.

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TL;DR: Australopithecine canine size variation is analyzed taking age, sex and the negative allometric relation of canine size and posterior tooth size into account to provide predictability for observed absolute and relative canine size variations.

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TL;DR: The available archaeological, cultural and genetical data are presented to throw further light on the origin, centers of domestication and relationship of Zebu cattle all over the world.

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TL;DR: It has been found that most of the tribal populations are distinct from the non-tribal populations, and it is suggested that the four main clusters obtained may be termed Caucasoid (Aryan), Caucasoids (Dravidian), Australoid and Mongoloid, considering the location and nature of the populations in each cluster.

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TL;DR: It was hypothesized that early hominids and their precursors were opportunists and that this characteristic profoundly shaped their evolutionary development in that opportunists can place a greater evolutionary pressure upon their structure by a behavioral change, and because as the level of competence of an opportunist in a habitat increases, the probability that a viable specialization will evolve decreases.

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TL;DR: The cytogenetical study of 59 lepilemurs caught in different areas of Madagascar revealed the existence of 9 different karyotypes, the diploid numbers of which are: 38, 36, 36 and 34.

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TL;DR: The Ayoreo Indians of southern Bolivia and northern Paraguay are still a relatively unacculturated tribe whose members live at present in association with nine missions, and five of these populations were studied by as discussed by the authors.

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TL;DR: A review and analysis of recent published discussions on the dental arcades of Ramapithecus are presented in this paper, where the Walker and Andrews tooth row and palatal reconstruction is considered most accurate; however, a number of modifications to their total facial reconstruction are suggested.

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TL;DR: Data on a fairly complete series of teeth from the Epipaleolithic down to recent times was used to obtain better evaluation of temporal trends in tooth size and morphology.

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TL;DR: Une description sommaire de la mandibule gauche d'un jeune individu de Paradolichopithecus (Cercopithecine), trouvee en 1974 au gisement de La Puebla de Valverde ( Aguirre y Soto, 1974 ), est suivie d'une mise a jour des donnees fossiles de Cercophecoidea dans la sequence revisee des faunes mammaliennes du Neogene superieur europeen, d'apres les

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TL;DR: The pelves of three early hominids, OH 28, SK 3155 and Sts 14, are compared to each other and to those of living primates by canonical analysis and the results reveal an extensive similarity between these three fossil hominid and modern man in pelvic structure.

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TL;DR: It is argued that systematic ethological study of primate predatory behavior, neglected to date, is possible and potentially valuable and made through an investigation of a particular predatory motor pattern.

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TL;DR: Spermatozoa from 16 primate species, representing Families Cercopithecidae, Lorisidae and Lemuridae, were viewed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and details of ultrastructure and identifying features of these families are presented.

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TL;DR: The morphological and physical adaptations of Twa pygmoid women and bigger Oto women living in the same physical environment are defined and some forms that qualify as ethoecological adaptations are described.

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TL;DR: In this paper, multivariate procedures are applied to metrical and non-metrical data recorded on early metal age crania from Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, for a comparison with prehistoric and more modern samples from Southeast Asia, Mainland East Asia, and the Pacific.

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TL;DR: In this article, early farming communities or neolithic cultures have been identified in five different geographical regions, to which has been added another one from Pakistan, and the temporal and spatial distribution of these regions has been discussed in this paper together with the evidence relating to the antecedent stage of the Neolithic cultures.

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M.D. Rose1
TL;DR: It is suggested that there are few elements in primate predatory behavior that require more than the general behavioral plasticity and adaptability that omnivorous, ground foraging primates exhibit with respect to the exploitation of different types of plant foods.

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TL;DR: Correlations may be established between the degree of development of some skeletal districts and the different speicalizations of the two evolutionary lines in Pongo pygmaeus.