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The Link Between Human Menstruation and Placental Delivery: A Novel Evolutionary Interpretation

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Cell Type and Species-specific Patterns in Neuronal and Non-neuronal Methylomes of Human and Chimpanzee Cortices

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Human evolution: brain, birthweight and the immune system

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The Neanderthal brain: Biological and cognitive evolution

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Language Evolution

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Oxytocin and vasotocin receptor variation sheds light into the evolution of human prosocialityPreprint

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The effect of ontogeny on estimates of KNM-WT 15000's adult body size

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A conjecture about the neural basis of recursion in light of descent with modification

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Faunal Change in Eastern Africa at the Oldowan – Acheulean Transition

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Interpopulational variation in human brain size: implications for hominin cognitive phylogeny

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Cooperative Breeding as a Likely Early Catalyst of Human Evolution

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Modelling of factors underlying the evolution of human language

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Coevolution of Brain, Culture, and Lifespan: Insights from Computer Simulations

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A bigger brain for a more complex environment

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Cognitive correlates of human endurance

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Rapid growth in a Neandertal infant from Amud Cave in Israel

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EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS CAPACITY IN THE GENUS HOMO: ORIGINS AND BUILDING BLOCKS

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Evolutionary history of hominin brain size and phylogenetic comparative methods

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The Expert Neandertal Mind and Brain, Revisited

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An Updated Evolutionary Research Programme for the Evolution of Language

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Broca’s area, variation and taxic diversity in early Homo from Koobi Fora (Kenya)

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Functional analysis of CYP4B1 enzymes from apes and humans uncovers evolutionary hot spots for adaptations of the catalytical function

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Brain region-specific effects of nearly fixed sapiens-derived alleles

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Evaluating landscape knowledge and lithic resource selection at the French Middle Paleolithic site of the Bau de l'Aubesier

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Growing Up Fast, Maturing Slowly

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The Evolution of Brain and Body Size in Genus Homo

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Exploring the relationship between soft and hard tissues: The example of vertebral arteries and transverse foramina

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Quantifying primate brain evolution: Evidence from virtual endocasts

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Neanderthal brain size at birth provides insights into the evolution of human life history

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Pandora's growing box: Inferring the evolution and development of hominin brains from endocasts

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Rethinking Phylogeny and Ontogeny in Hominin Brain Evolution

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