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Different environmental variables predict body and brain size evolution in Homo by Will, Manuel, Krapp, Mario, Stock, Jay T., Manica, Andrea

“…Increasing body and brain size constitutes a key macro-evolutionary pattern in the hominin lineage, yet the mechanisms behind these changes remain debated…”
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Spatial and temporal variation of body size among early Homo by Will, Manuel, Stock, Jay T.

“…The estimation of body size among the earliest members of the genus Homo (2.4–1.5Myr [millions of years ago]) is central to interpretations of their biology…”
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Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter? by Scerri, Eleanor M.L., Thomas, Mark G., Manica, Andrea, Gunz, Philipp, Stock, Jay T., Stringer, Chris, Grove, Matt, Groucutt, Huw S., Timmermann, Axel, Rightmire, G. Philip, d’Errico, Francesco, Tryon, Christian A., Drake, Nick A., Brooks, Alison S., Dennell, Robin W., Durbin, Richard, Henn, Brenna M., Lee-Thorp, Julia, deMenocal, Peter, Petraglia, Michael D., Thompson, Jessica C., Scally, Aylwyn, Chikhi, Lounès

“…We challenge the view that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved within a single population and/or region of Africa. The chronology and physical diversity of…”
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Twenty thousand-year-old huts at a hunter-gatherer settlement in eastern Jordan by Maher, Lisa A, Richter, Tobias, Macdonald, Danielle, Jones, Matthew D, Martin, Louise, Stock, Jay T

“…Ten thousand years before Neolithic farmers settled in permanent villages, hunter-gatherer groups of the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 22-11,600 cal BP) inhabited…”
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Life History Transitions at the Origins of Agriculture: A Model for Understanding How Niche Construction Impacts Human Growth, Demography and Health by Wells, Jonathan C K, Stock, Jay T

“…Over recent millennia, human populations have regularly reconstructed their subsistence niches, changing both how they obtain food and the conditions in which…”
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Intensity, repetitiveness, and directionality of habitual adolescent mobility patterns influence the tibial diaphysis morphology of athletes by Shaw, Colin N., Stock, Jay T.

“…Mobility patterns affect the loads placed on the lower limbs during locomotion and may influence variation in lower limb diaphyseal robusticity and shape. This…”
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Trade-offs in relative limb length among Peruvian children: extending the thrifty phenotype hypothesis to limb proportions by Pomeroy, Emma, Stock, Jay T, Stanojevic, Sanja, Miranda, J Jaime, Cole, Tim J, Wells, Jonathan C K

“…Both the concept of 'brain-sparing' growth and associations between relative lower limb length, childhood environment and adult disease risk are well…”
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Early Life Conditions and Physiological Stress following the Transition to Farming in Central/Southeast Europe: Skeletal Growth Impairment and 6000 Years of Gradual Recovery by Macintosh, Alison A, Pinhasi, Ron, Stock, Jay T

“…Early life conditions play an important role in determining adult body size. In particular, childhood malnutrition and disease can elicit growth delays and…”
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Extreme mobility in the Late Pleistocene? Comparing limb biomechanics among fossil Homo, varsity athletes and Holocene foragers by Shaw, Colin N., Stock, Jay T.

“…Descriptions of Pleistocene activity patterns often derive from comparisons of long bone diaphyseal robusticity across contemporaneous fossilized hominins. The…”
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Population history and ecology, in addition to climate, influence human stature and body proportions by Pomeroy, Emma, Stock, Jay T., Wells, Jonathan C. K.

“…Worldwide variation in human stature and limb proportions is widely accepted to reflect thermal adaptation, but the contribution of population history to this…”
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Habitual throwing and swimming correspond with upper limb diaphyseal strength and shape in modern human athletes by Shaw, Colin N., Stock, Jay T.

“…Variation in upper limb long bone cross‐sectional properties may reflect a phenotypically plastic response to habitual loading patterns. Structural differences…”
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Intensive terrestrial or marine locomotor strategies are associated with inter‐ and intra‐limb bone functional adaptation in living female athletes by Macintosh, Alison A., Stock, Jay T.

“…Objectives To systematically characterize intra‐limb patterns of skeletal plasticity to loading among living women, in order to better understand regional…”
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The obstetric dilemma: An ancient game of Russian roulette, or a variable dilemma sensitive to ecology? by Wells, Jonathan C.K., DeSilva, Jeremy M., Stock, Jay T.

“…The difficult birth process of humans, often described as the “obstetric dilemma,” is commonly assumed to reflect antagonistic selective pressures favoring…”
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Divergence in male and female manipulative behaviors with the intensification of metallurgy in Central Europe by Macintosh, Alison A, Pinhasi, Ron, Stock, Jay T

“…Humeral morphology has been shown to reflect, in part, habitual manipulative behaviors in humans. Among Central European agricultural populations, long-term…”
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Prehistoric women's manual labor exceeded that of athletes through the first 5500 years of farming in Central Europe by Macintosh, Alison A, Pinhasi, Ron, Stock, Jay T

“…The intensification of agriculture is often associated with declining mobility and bone strength through time, although women often exhibit less pronounced…”
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Disarticulation, evisceration and excarnation: Neolithic mortuary practices at Dingsishan, southern China by Ye, Ziqi, Wang, Minghui, Stock, Jay T., Li, Fa-jun

“…The diversity of human mortuary practices and treatments in prehistory is widely recognised, but our understanding of the purpose and manner of corpse…”
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Muscle force interacts with stature to influence functionally related polar second moments of area in the lower limb among adult women by Murray, Alison A., Stock, Jay T.

“…Objectives We sought to determine the relationships between muscle size, function, and polar second moments of area (J) at the midshaft femur, proximal tibia,…”
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Baby steps towards linking calcaneal trabecular bone ontogeny and the development of bipedal human gait by Saers, Jaap P. P., Ryan, Timothy M., Stock, Jay T.

“…Trabecular bone structure in adulthood is a product of a process of modelling during ontogeny and remodelling throughout life. Insight into ontogeny is…”
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Human athletic paleobiology; using sport as a model to investigate human evolutionary adaptation by Longman, Daniel P., Wells, Jonathan C. K., Stock, Jay T.

“…The use of sport as a conceptual framework offers unprecedented opportunities to improve our understanding of what the body does, shedding new light on our…”
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Patterns of energy allocation during energetic scarcity; evolutionary insights from ultra-endurance events by Longman, Daniel P., Dolan, Eimear, Wells, Jonathan C.K., Stock, Jay T.

“…Exercise physiologists and evolutionary biologists share a research interest in determining patterns of energy allocation during times of acute or chronic…”
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