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Body size, brain size, and sexual dimorphism in Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber by Garvin, Heather M., Elliott, Marina C., Delezene, Lucas K., Hawks, John, Churchill, Steven E., Berger, Lee R., Holliday, Trenton W.

“…Homo erectus and later humans have enlarged body sizes, reduced sexual dimorphism, elongated lower limbs, and increased encephalization compared to…”
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Rabbits in the grave! Consequences of bioturbation on the Neandertal “burial” at Regourdou (Montignac-sur-Vézère, Dordogne) by Pelletier, Maxime, Royer, Aurélien, Holliday, Trenton W., Discamps, Emmanuel, Madelaine, Stéphane, Maureille, Bruno

“…The understanding of Neanderthal societies, both with regard to their funerary behaviors and their subsistence activities, is hotly debated. Old excavations…”
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Body proportions of circumpolar peoples as evidenced from skeletal data: Ipiutak and Tigara (Point Hope) versus Kodiak Island Inuit by Holliday, Trenton W., Hilton, Charles E.

“…Given the well‐documented fact that human body proportions covary with climate (presumably due to the action of selection), one would expect that the Ipiutak…”
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Neandertal clavicle length by Trinkaus, Erik, Holliday, Trenton W., Auerbach, Benjamin M.

“…The Late Pleistocene archaic humans from western Eurasia (the Neandertals) have been described for a century as exhibiting absolutely and relatively long…”
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Body Size, Body Shape, and the Circumscription of the Genus Homo by Holliday, Trenton W.

“…Since the 1984 discovery of the Nariokotome Homo erectus/Homo ergaster skeleton, it has been almost axiomatic that the emergence of Homo (sensu stricto) was…”
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Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene Homo by Ruff, Christopher B, Trinkaus, Erik, Holliday, Trenton W

“…Many dramatic changes in morphology within the genus Homo have occurred over the past 2 million years or more, including large increases in absolute brain size…”
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Species concepts, reticulation, and human evolution by HOLLIDAY, Trenton W

“…Hennig differentiated parent-offspring, or tokogenetic, relationships among organisms within a population, which are network-like, or reticulate, in their…”
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Body size and its consequences: Allometry and the lower limb length of Liang Bua 1 ( Homo floresiensis) by Holliday, Trenton W., Franciscus, Robert G.

“…Bivariate femoral length allometry in recent humans, Pan, and Gorilla is investigated with special reference to the diminutive Liang Bua (LB) 1 specimen (the…”
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Relative variation in human proximal and distal limb segment lengths by Holliday, Trenton W., Ruff, Christopher B.

“…The pattern of variation and covariation of proximal and distal limb segment lengths was examined within and between 20 geographically diverse skeletal samples…”
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The thigh and leg of Homo naledi by Marchi, Damiano, Walker, Christopher S., Wei, Pianpian, Holliday, Trenton W., Churchill, Steven E., Berger, Lee R., DeSilva, Jeremy M.

“…This paper describes the 108 femoral, patellar, tibial, and fibular elements of a new species of Homo (Homo naledi) discovered in the Dinaledi chamber of the…”
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Neandertal cold adaptation: Physiological and energetic factors by Steegmann Jr, A. Theodore, Cerny, Frank J., Holliday, Trenton W.

“…European Neandertals employed a complex set of physiological cold defenses, homologous to those seen in contemporary humans and nonhuman primates. While…”
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The Upper Limb of Australopithecus sediba by Churchill, Steven E., Holliday, Trenton W., Carlson, Kristian J., Jashashvili, Tea, Marias, Marisa E., Mathews, Sandra, Sparling, Tawnee L., Schmid, Peter, de Ruiter, Darryl J., Berger, Lee R.

“…The evolution of the human upper limb involved a change in function from its use for both locomotion and prehension (as in apes) to a predominantly prehensile…”
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Re-evaluation of Pleistocene and Holocene long bone robusticity trends with regards to age-at-death estimates and size standardization procedures by Friedl, Lukáš, Eisová, Stanislava, Holliday, Trenton W.

“…Long-term trends in robusticity of lower limb bones in the genus Homo through the Pleistocene until the present have been proposed, which have been interpreted…”
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Neandertal foot remains from Regourdou 1 (Montignac-sur-Vézère, Dordogne, France) by Pablos, Adrián, Gómez-Olivencia, Asier, Maureille, Bruno, Holliday, Trenton W., Madelaine, Stéphane, Trinkaus, Erik, Couture-Veschambre, Christine

“…Regourdou is a well-known Middle Paleolithic site which has yielded the fossil remains of a minimum of two Neandertal individuals. The first individual…”
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New model for estimating the relationship between surface area and volume in the human body using skeletal remains by Kasabova, Boryana E., Holliday, Trenton W.

“…A new model for estimating human body surface area and body volume/mass from standard skeletal metrics is presented. This model is then tested against both 1)…”
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Reflections on Modern Human Origins in the Post-Neanderthal Genome Era by Holliday, Trenton W., Gautney, Joanna R., Friedl, Lukáš

“…The sequencing of the Neanderthal genome answered once and for all the question of whether these hominins played a role in the origins of modern humans—they…”
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Hominoid humeral morphology: 3D morphometric analysis by Holliday, Trenton W., Friedl, Lukáš

“…ABSTRACT Variation in humeral morphology among hominoids has long been recognized in relation to both phylogeny and behavior. Here, we use 3D landmark data to…”
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Ecogeographic patterns in fetal limb proportions by Waxenbaum, Erin B., Warren, Michael W., Holliday, Trenton W., Byrd, John E., Cole, Theodore M.

“…Objectives Humans generally comply with the ecological rule of Allen (1877), with populations from tropical environments exhibiting body proportions in which…”
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Femoral neck and shaft structure in Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber (Rising Star System, South Africa) by Friedl, Lukas, Claxton, Alex G., Walker, Christopher S., Churchill, Steven E., Holliday, Trenton W., Hawks, John, Berger, Lee R., DeSilva, Jeremy M., Marchi, Damiano

“…The abundant femoral assemblage of Homo naledi found in the Dinaledi Chamber provides a unique opportunity to test hypotheses regarding the taxonomy,…”
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The Ecological Context of Trapping among Recent Hunter‐Gatherers: Implications for Subsistence in Terminal Pleistocene Europe by Holliday, Trenton W.

“…Holliday discusses the ethnographic and ethnohistoric record of trapping in recent hunter-gatherer groups from five continents and applies his conclusions to…”
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