Preprints, press releases and fossils in space: What is happening in South African human evolution research?
South African Journal of Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
120(3/4)
Published: March 26, 2024
Language: Английский
241,000 to 335,000 Years Old Rock Engravings Made byHomo nalediin the Rising Star Cave system, South Africa
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: June 5, 2023
Abstract
The
production
of
painted,
etched
or
engraved
designs
on
cave
walls
other
surfaces
is
recognized
as
a
major
cognitive
step
in
human
evolution.
Such
intentional
designs,
which
are
widely
interpreted
signifying,
recording,
and
transmitting
information
durable
manner
were
once
considered
exclusive
to
Late
Pleistocene
Homo
sapiens
.
Recent
work
has
demonstrated
that
hominin
groups
also
made
such
marks,
including
Neanderthals
(Rodríguez-Vidal
et
al.,
2014;
Hoffmann
2018),
possibly
Middle-Pleistocene
erectus
(Joordens
2015).
signs
indicate
an
intentionality
characteristic
meaning-making
(Kissel
Fuentes
2018)
been
argued
require
significant
levels
abilities
not
found
species
with
smaller
brain
sizes
(Parkington,
2010).
In
fact,
the
evolution
symbols
thought
be
core
aspect
what
it
means
“human”
(Henshilwood,
2009).
Here
we
present
first
known
example
abstract
patterns
shapes
within
Dinaledi
subsystem
Rising
Star
Cave
South
Africa.
We
identified
markings
incised
into
dolomitic
limestone
cave.
engravings
described
here
deeply
impressed
cross-hatchings
geometric
shapes.
bearing
these
appear
have
prepared
smoothed.
some
areas
there
residue
creates
sheen
surface
indicating
repeated
handling
rubbing
rock,
evidence
application
dirt
sand
by
non-natural
processes.
naledi
entered
this
part
system
buried
bodies
both
Chamber
adjacent
Hill
Antechamber
between
241
335
ka
(Dirks
2017;
Robbins
2021,
Berger
al,
2023a).
pillar
extends
natural
fissure
corridor
links
two
chambers
associate
them
H.
Language: Английский
Being Dead Otherwise Being Dead Otherwise By Anne Allison Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2023, 256 pp., £21.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478019848 (paperback)
The Journal of Development Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 3
Published: July 24, 2024
DNA-driven evolution: DNA's extreme climate-induced rearrangement produced Sapiens and ProgRetrogProg evolution
Published: Jan. 22, 2023
Homo
sapiens'
birth
time
is
somewhere
between
2
million
and
100
thousand
years
but
still
blurry.
NEW
PARADIGM:
There
sufficient
evidence
that
the
glacial
maximum
~140
ka
largely
wiped
Pre-Sapiens
out
(incl.
Pseudo-Neanderthals
Pseudo-Denisovans)
a
small
population
macroevolutionary
progressed
into
Sapiens
in
Levant,
REAL
moderns,
Neanderthals,
Denisovans
originated
from
this
new
population.
In
other
words,
common
ancestral
was
NOT
Africa
before
500
Levant
ka.
case,
it
invalid
to
classify
pre-140
DNAs
as
Neanderthal
or
Denisovan
using
chimp
genome
plus
400
old
genomes
Sima
de
los
Huesos.
New
Paradigm,
post-Sapiens
archaics
are
genomically
modern,
not
archaic
Denisovans,
Eyasi
1-like
Africans
except
latest
Erectus
Java).
An
unknown
evolutionary
mechanism
caused
both
their
appearance
disappearance:
The
relative
increase
decrease
of
negative
(retrogressive)
dominance
DNA.
If
so,
Paradigm's
prediction
correct:
there
never-ending
struggle
for
DNA
two
opposing
forces,
seems
be
driving
force
ProgRetrogProg
evolution.
Language: Английский
Kaleidoscope
The British Journal of Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
223(2), P. 399 - 400
Published: Aug. 1, 2023
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Language: Английский