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Experimental evidence that penis size, height, and body shape influence assessment of male sexual attractiveness and fighting ability in humans
Recommended Citation Aich, U., Tan, C., Bathgate, R., Blake, K. R., Capp, R. C. S., Kuek, J. C., Wong, B. B. M., Mautz, B. S., & Jennion...
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The evolutionary history of the human face, a multi-disciplinary detective story
Like all complex animals, humans have faces.
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Cooking increases the energy value of meat
Processing food extensively by thermal and nonthermal techniques is a unique and universal human practice.
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Causal Cognition and Theory of Mind in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology
Lombard, Marlize and Peter Gärdenfors. 2021. Causal Cognition and Theory of Mind in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology. Biological Theory. h...
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Variation in hunting weaponry for more than 300,000 years: A tip cross-sectional area study of Middle Stone Age points from southern Africa
Lombard, Marlize. 2021. Variation in hunting weaponry for more than 300,000 years: A tip cross-sectional area study of Middle Stone Age poin...
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Introduction to ‘Theoretical Pathways’: Thinking About Human Endeavour During the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic
Högberg, Anders and Marlize Lombard. 2021. Introduction to ‘Theoretical Pathways’: Thinking About Human Endeavour During the Middle Stone Ag...
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Continued work on the evolution of skin colour
While at STIAS, I plan to complete a long-standing data analysis of large bodies of archaeological, paleontological, and climatological data in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of skin colour in Homo sapiens for a joint project with Nina Jablonski.
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Hair: The Natural and Unnatural History of a Human Obsession
Hair is one of the most distinctive features of the human species and of individual people.
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Archaeology of a Hungry Mind
Why and how did we (Homo sapiens) evolve into a species that is dependent on its ‘brains’ rather than its ‘brawn’ for our survival and successful spread across the globe?
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The malaise of the human condition: Social diagnostics, human evolution and theological discourse on the contingency of “sin”
Social diagnostics gained some currency in the South African context through the Diagnostic Report (2011) produced by the National Planning Commission.
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Deconstructing Shadows: Human behaviour through the prism of evolution
This project involves an in-depth analysis of human behaviour from an evolutionary perspective, as a basis for integrating our modern understanding of behavioural psychology with its neurobiological basis.
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How did Homo sapiens become Homo docens? On the evolution of social learning and teaching during the Paleolithic
The purpose of the project is to analyse why teaching has evolved only in the line leading to Homo sapiens.
