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A new absolute date from Swartkrans Cave for the oldest occurrences of Paranthropus robustus and Oldowan stone tools in South Africa by Kuman, Kathleen, Granger, Darryl E., Gibbon, Ryan J., Pickering, Travis Rayne, Caruana, Matthew V., Bruxelles, Laurent, Clarke, Ronald J., Heaton, Jason L., Stratford, Dominic, Brain, C.K.

“…The Early Pleistocene site of Swartkrans in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site has been significant for our understanding of the evolution…”
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The long limb bones of the StW 573 Australopithecus skeleton from Sterkfontein Member 2: Descriptions and proportions by Heaton, Jason L., Pickering, Travis Rayne, Carlson, Kristian J., Crompton, Robin H., Jashashvili, Tea, Beaudet, Amélie, Bruxelles, Laurent, Kuman, Kathleen, Heile, Andrea J., Stratford, Dominic, Clarke, Ronald J.

“…Due to its completeness, the A.L. 288-1 (‘Lucy’) skeleton has long served as the archetypal bipedal Australopithecus. However, there remains considerable…”
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First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel, Pickering, Travis Rayne, Baquedano, Enrique, Mabulla, Audax, Mark, Darren F, Musiba, Charles, Bunn, Henry T, Uribelarrea, David, Smith, Victoria, Diez-Martin, Fernando, Pérez-González, Alfredo, Sánchez, Policarpo, Santonja, Manuel, Barboni, Doris, Gidna, Agness, Ashley, Gail, Yravedra, José, Heaton, Jason L, Arriaza, Maria Carmen

“…Recent excavations in Level 4 at BK (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) have yielded nine hominin teeth, a distal humerus fragment, a proximal radius with much…”
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The bony labyrinth of StW 573 (“Little Foot”): Implications for early hominin evolution and paleobiology by Beaudet, Amélie, Clarke, Ronald J., Bruxelles, Laurent, Carlson, Kristian J., Crompton, Robin, de Beer, Frikkie, Dhaene, Jelle, Heaton, Jason L., Jakata, Kudakwashe, Jashashvili, Tea, Kuman, Kathleen, McClymont, Juliet, Pickering, Travis R., Stratford, Dominic

“…Because of its exceptional degree of preservation and its geological age of ∼3.67 Ma, StW 573 makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of early…”
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Trabecular organization of the proximal femur in Paranthropus robustus: Implications for the assessment of its hip joint loading conditions by Cazenave, Marine, Oettlé, Anna, Pickering, Travis Rayne, Heaton, Jason L., Nakatsukasa, Masato, Francis Thackeray, J., Hoffman, Jakobus, Macchiarelli, Roberto

“…Reconstruction of the locomotor repertoire of the australopiths (Australopithecus and Paranthropus) has progressively integrated information from the…”
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The endocast of StW 573 (“Little Foot”) and hominin brain evolution by Beaudet, Amélie, Clarke, Ronald J., de Jager, Edwin J., Bruxelles, Laurent, Carlson, Kristian J., Crompton, Robin, de Beer, Frikkie, Dhaene, Jelle, Heaton, Jason L., Jakata, Kudakwashe, Jashashvili, Tea, Kuman, Kathleen, McClymont, Juliet, Pickering, Travis R., Stratford, Dominic

“…One of the most crucial debates in human paleoneurology concerns the timing and mode of the emergence of the derived cerebral features in the hominin fossil…”
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The pectoral girdle of StW 573 (‘Little Foot’) and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina by Carlson, Kristian J., Green, David J., Jashashvili, Tea, Pickering, Travis R., Heaton, Jason L., Beaudet, Amélie, Stratford, Dominic, Crompton, Robin, Kuman, Kathleen, Bruxelles, Laurent, Clarke, Ronald J.

“…The ca. 3.67 Ma adult skeleton known as ‘Little Foot’ (StW 573), recovered from Sterkfontein Member 2 breccia in the Silberberg Grotto, is remarkable for its…”
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Monkey fossils do not negate cosmogenic dating at Sterkfontein by Granger, Darryl E, Stratford, Dominic, Bruxelles, Laurent, Heaton, Jason L, Pickering, Travis Rayne, Kuman, Kathleen, Clarke, Ronald J

“…Frost et al. (1) show that molars of the East African Theropithecus oswaldi lineage become systematically larger from 4.0 to 0.5 My. They use this trend to…”
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Hominin skeletal part abundances and claims of deliberate disposal of corpses in the Middle Pleistocene by Egeland, Charles P., Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel, Pickering, Travis Rayne, Menter, Colin G., Heaton, Jason L.

“…Humans are set apart from other organisms by the realization of their own mortality. Thus, determining the prehistoric emergence of this capacity is of…”
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Cortical bone distribution in the femoral neck of Paranthropus robustus by Cazenave, Marine, Braga, José, Oettlé, Anna, Pickering, Travis Rayne, Heaton, Jason L., Nakatsukasa, Masato, Thackeray, J. Francis, de Beer, Frikkie, Hoffman, Jakobus, Dumoncel, Jean, Macchiarelli, Roberto

“…Studies of the australopith (Australopithecus and Paranthropus) proximal femur have increasingly integrated information from the local arrangement of the…”
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The Earliest South African Hominids by Clarke, Ronald J, Pickering, Travis Rayne, Heaton, Jason L, Kuman, Kathleen

“…The earliest South African hominids (humans and their ancestral kin) belong to the genera Australopithecus , Paranthropus , and Homo , with the oldest being a…”
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The Oldowan industry from Swartkrans cave, South Africa, and its relevance for the African Oldowan by Kuman, Kathleen, Sutton, Morris B., Pickering, Travis Rayne, Heaton, Jason L.

“…The oldest recognized artifacts at the Swartkrans cave hominid-bearing site in South Africa have long been known to occur in the Lower Bank of Member 1, now…”
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A multiscale stratigraphic investigation of the context of StW 573 ‘Little Foot’ and Member 2, Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa by Bruxelles, Laurent, Stratford, Dominic J., Maire, Richard, Pickering, Travis R., Heaton, Jason L., Beaudet, Amelie, Kuman, Kathleen, Crompton, Robin, Carlson, Kris J., Jashashvili, Tea, McClymont, Juliet, Leader, George M., Clarke, Ronald J.

“…The Sterkfontein Caves is currently the world's richest Australopithecus-bearing site. Included in Sterkfontein's hominin assemblage is StW 573 (‘Little…”
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Earliest modern human-like hand bone from a new >1.84-million-year-old site at Olduvai in Tanzania by Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel, Pickering, Travis Rayne, Almécija, Sergio, Heaton, Jason L., Baquedano, Enrique, Mabulla, Audax, Uribelarrea, David

“…Modern humans are characterized by specialized hand morphology that is associated with advanced manipulative skills. Thus, there is important debate in…”
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The atlas of StW 573 and the late emergence of human-like head mobility and brain metabolism by Beaudet, Amélie, Clarke, Ronald J., Heaton, Jason L., Pickering, Travis R., Carlson, Kristian J., Crompton, Robin H., Jashashvili, Tea, Bruxelles, Laurent, Jakata, Kudakwashe, Bam, Lunga, Van Hoorebeke, Luc, Kuman, Kathleen, Stratford, Dominic

“…Functional morphology of the atlas reflects multiple aspects of an organism’s biology. More specifically, its shape indicates patterns of head mobility, while…”
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Multidisciplinary In Situ Simulation-Based Training as a Postpartum Hemorrhage Quality Improvement Project by Lutgendorf, Monica A, Spalding, Carmen, Drake, Elizabeth, Spence, Dennis, Heaton, Jason O, Morocco, Kristina V

“…Postpartum hemorrhage is a common obstetric emergency affecting 3 to 5% of deliveries, with significant maternal morbidity and mortality. Effective management…”
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Hominin hand bone fossils from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa (1998–2003 excavations) by Pickering, Travis Rayne, Heaton, Jason L., Clarke, Ron J., Stratford, Dominic

“…We describe eleven hominin metacarpals and phalanges recovered from Jacovec Cavern and Member 4 of the Sterkfontein Formation between 1998 and 2003…”
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Hominin vertebrae and upper limb bone fossils from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa (1998–2003 excavations) by Pickering, Travis Rayne, Heaton, Jason L., Clarke, R. J., Stratford, Dominic

“…Objectives We provide descriptions and functional interpretations of 11 >2.0 Ma hominin vertebral and upper limb fossils from Sterkfontein. Materials and…”
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Cranial vault thickness variation and inner structural organization in the StW 578 hominin cranium from Jacovec Cavern, South Africa by Beaudet, Amélie, Carlson, Kristian J., Clarke, Ronald J., de Beer, Frikkie, Dhaene, Jelle, Heaton, Jason L., Pickering, Travis R., Stratford, Dominic

“…The Sterkfontein Caves site is one of the richest early hominin fossil localities in Africa. More specifically, the fossiliferous deposits within the…”
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First hominin fossils from Milner Hall, Sterkfontein, South Africa by Stratford, Dominic, Heaton, Jason L., Pickering, Travis Rayne, Caruana, Matthew V., Shadrach, Kelita

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