Understanding the Impact of Trampling on Rodent Bones by Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, Lucía Rueda, Fernando Julian Fernández, Sara García-Morato, María Dolores Marin-Monfort, Claudia Ines Montalvo, Rodrigo Tomassini, Michael Chazan, Liora K. Horwitz, Peter Andrews

“…Since trampling marks caused by sedimentary friction strongly mimic cut marks made by humans using stone tools during butchery, distinguishing the origin of such modifications is especially relevant to the study of human evolution. In contrast, damage resulting from trampling on small mammal fossil bones has received less attention, despite the fact that it may solve interesting problems relating to site formation processes. …”
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Hominin cranial fragments from Milner Hall, Sterkfontein, South Africa by Amélie Beaudet, Jason L. Heaton, Ericka N. L’Abbé, Travis R. Pickering, Dominic Stratford

“…Significance: • The Sterkfontein Caves have widely contributed to our understanding of human evolution. • Besides the well-known Members 4 and 2, where the iconic ‘Mrs Ples’ and ‘Little Foot’ have been found, in this study we suggest that the Milner Hall locality represents an additional, stratigraphically associated source of not only fossil hominins, but also Oldowan stone tools…”
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Estratégias de produção de si e de biotecnologias Estrategias de producción de sí y de biotecnologías Strategies of self-production and biotechnologies by Anita Guazzelli Bernardes, Neuza Guareschi

“…Research discusses the naturalization of human evolution and the development of science in which Biotechnologies are taken as an example of humanity’s advance within contemporary society. …”
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APOE4 is associated with elevated blood lipids and lower levels of innate immune biomarkers in a tropical Amerindian subsistence population by Angela R Garcia, Caleb Finch, Margaret Gatz, Thomas Kraft, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Daniel Cummings, Mia Charifson, Kenneth Buetow, Bret A Beheim, Hooman Allayee, Gregory S Thomas, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael D Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin C Trumble

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Recent natural selection conferred protection against schizophrenia by non-antagonistic pleiotropy by Javier González-Peñas, Lucía de Hoyos, Covadonga M. Díaz-Caneja, Álvaro Andreu-Bernabeu, Carol Stella, Xaquín Gurriarán, Lourdes Fañanás, Julio Bobes, Ana González-Pinto, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Lourdes Martorell, Elisabet Vilella, Gerard Muntané, María Dolores Molto, Jose Carlos Gonzalez-Piqueras, Mara Parellada, Celso Arango, Javier Costas

“…We found evidence for significant enrichment of RNS markers in derived alleles arisen during human evolution conferring protection to schizophrenia. …”
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Lifetime prevalence of owner-reported medical conditions in the 25 most common dog breeds in the Dog Aging Project pack by Kiersten K. Forsyth, Brianah M. McCoy, Sarah M. Schmid, Daniel E. L. Promislow, Daniel E. L. Promislow, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Noah Snyder-Mackler, the DAP Consortium, Joshua M. Akey, Brooke Benton, Elhanan Borenstein, Marta G. Castelhano, Amanda E. Coleman, Kate E. Creevy, Kyle Crowder, Matthew D. Dunbar, Virginia R. Fajt, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Unity Jeffery, Erica C Jonlin, Matt Kaeberlein, Elinor K. Karlsson, Kathleen F. Kerr, Jonathan M. Levine, Jing Ma, Robyn L McClelland, Daniel E. L. Promislow, Audrey Ruple, Stephen M. Schwartz, Sandi Shrager, Noah Snyder-Mackler, M. Katherine Tolbert, Silvan R. Urfer, Benjamin S. Wilfond

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Dietary Adaptations of Early and Middle Pleistocene Equids From the Anagni Basin (Frosinone, Central Italy) by Flavia Strani, Flavia Strani, Flavia Strani, Diana Pushkina, Hervé Bocherens, Hervé Bocherens, Luca Bellucci, Luca Bellucci, Luca Bellucci, Raffaele Sardella, Raffaele Sardella, Raffaele Sardella, Daniel DeMiguel, Daniel DeMiguel

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Structural variation of centromeric endogenous retroviruses in human populations and their impact on cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, Sézary syndrome, and HIV infection by Mark H. Kaplan, Mark Kaminski, Judith M. Estes, Scott D. Gitlin, Joseph Zahn, James T. Elder, Trilokraj Tejasvi, Elizabeth Gensterblum, Amr H. Sawalha, Joseph Patrick McGowan, Michael H. Dosik, Haner Direskeneli, Guher Saruhan Direskeneli, Sally N. Adebamowo, Clement A. Adebamowo, Mohammad Sajadi, Rafael Contreras-Galindo

“…These findings also provide new understanding of human evolution, as the −/−K111 genotype appears to have arisen out of Africa and is distributed unevenly throughout the world, possibly affecting the severity of HIV in different geographic areas.…”
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Network Analyses of Maternal Pre- and Post-Partum Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety by Desiree Y. Phua, Helen Chen, Yap Seng Chong, Yap Seng Chong, Peter D. Gluckman, Peter D. Gluckman, Birit F. P. Broekman, Birit F. P. Broekman, Michael J. Meaney, Michael J. Meaney, Michael J. Meaney, Michael J. Meaney

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Serological survey to estimate SARS-CoV-2 infection and antibody seroprevalence at a large public university: A cross-sectional study by Joshua LaBaer, Veronica Boyle, Megan L Jehn, Ching-Wen Hou, Stacy Williams, Kylee Taylor, Bradley Bobbett, Joseph Kouvetakis, Keana Nguyen, Aaron McDonald, Valerie Harris, Benjamin Nussle, Phillip Scharf, Timothy Lant, Mitchell Magee, Yunro Chung, Vel Murugan

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Enfermedades infecciosas emergentes: interacción entre el mundo microbiano y las sociedades humanas (Emergent infectious diseases: interaction between the microbial world and human... by Fernando García

“…Infectious diseases are not a recent issue, on the contrary, they have been emerging throughout human evolution and, at least, 4 historic transitions are identified. …”
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The long lives of primates and the ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis by Fernando Colchero, José Manuel Aburto, Elizabeth A. Archie, Christophe Boesch, Thomas Breuer, Fernando A. Campos, Anthony Collins, Dalia A. Conde, Marina Cords, Catherine Crockford, Melissa Emery Thompson, Linda M. Fedigan, Claudia Fichtel, Milou Groenenberg, Catherine Hobaiter, Peter M. Kappeler, Richard R. Lawler, Rebecca J. Lewis, Zarin P. Machanda, Marie L. Manguette, Martin N. Muller, Craig Packer, Richard J. Parnell, Susan Perry, Anne E. Pusey, Martha M. Robbins, Robert M. Seyfarth, Joan B. Silk, Johanna Staerk, Tara S. Stoinski, Emma J. Stokes, Karen B. Strier, Shirley C. Strum, Jenny Tung, Francisco Villavicencio, Roman M. Wittig, Richard W. Wrangham, Klaus Zuberbühler, James W. Vaupel, Susan C. Alberts

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Fly‐derived DNA and camera traps are complementary tools for assessing mammalian biodiversity by Jan F. Gogarten, Constanze Hoffmann, Mimi Arandjelovic, Andreas Sachse, Kevin Merkel, Paula Dieguez, Anthony Agbor, Samuel Angedakin, Gregory Brazzola, Sorrel Jones, Kevin E. Langergraber, Kevin Lee, Sergio Marrocoli, Mizuki Murai, Volker Sommer, Hjalmar Kühl, Fabian H. Leendertz, Sébastien Calvignac‐Spencer

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A genetic and linguistic analysis of the admixture histories of the islands of Cabo Verde by Romain Laurent, Zachary A Szpiech, Sergio S da Costa, Valentin Thouzeau, Cesar A Fortes-Lima, Françoise Dessarps-Freichey, Laure Lémée, José Utgé, Noah A Rosenberg, Marlyse Baptista, Paul Verdu

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Average phenotype but not plasticity in two metabolic hormones covary in wild female bonobos (Pan paniscus) by Ruth Sonnweber, Gottfried Hohmann, Gottfried Hohmann, Jeroen M. G. Stevens, Tobias Deschner, Tobias Deschner, Barbara Fruth, Barbara Fruth, Barbara Fruth, Anna-Lena Fiedler, Niina O. Nurmi, Verena Behringer, Verena Behringer

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<i>Bifidobacterium</i> Species Colonization in Infancy: A Global Cross-Sectional Comparison by Population History of Breastfeeding by Diana H. Taft, Zachery T. Lewis, Nhu Nguyen, Steve Ho, Chad Masarweh, Vanessa Dunne-Castagna, Daniel J. Tancredi, M. Nazmul Huda, Charles B. Stephensen, Katie Hinde, Erika von Mutius, Pirkka V. Kirjavainen, Jean-Charles Dalphin, Roger Lauener, Josef Riedler, Jennifer T. Smilowitz, J. Bruce German, Ardythe L. Morrow, David A. Mills

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Interferon-Inducible Protein 16 (IFI16) Has a Broad-Spectrum Binding Ability Against ssDNA Targets: An Evolutionary Hypothesis for Antiretroviral Checkpoint by Tara Patricia Hurst, Tara Patricia Hurst, Amr Aswad, Timokratis Karamitros, Timokratis Karamitros, Aris Katzourakis, Adrian L. Smith, Gkikas Magiorkinis

“…While HIV-1 has emerged relatively recently as a human pathogen, the cDNA functionality of IFI16 could have been selected for during the course of human evolution. Here we present a novel hypothesis that the products of reverse transcription of HK2, which has been proliferating in the genome of human ancestors for 30 million years, could interact with IFI16. …”
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Palaeoenvironments and hominin evolutionary dynamics in southeast Asia by Anne-Marie Bacon, Nicolas Bourgon, Elise Dufour, Fabrice Demeter, Clément Zanolli, Kira E. Westaway, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Philippe Duringer, Jean-Luc Ponche, Mike W. Morley, Eric Suzzoni, Sébastien Frangeul, Quentin Boesch, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Souliphane Boualaphane, Phonephanh Sichanthongtip, Daovee Sihanam, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Denis Fiorillo, Olivier Tombret, Elise Patole-Edoumba, Alexandra Zachwieja, Thonglith Luangkhoth, Viengkeo Souksavatdy, Tyler E. Dunn, Laura Shackelford, Jean-Jacques Hublin

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Dietary ω3-and ω6-Polyunsaturated fatty acids reconstitute fertility of Juvenile and adult Fads2-Deficient mice by Wilhelm Stoffel, Inga Schmidt-Soltau, Erika Binczek, Andreas Thomas, Mario Thevis, Ina Wegner

“…Objective: Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), including essential fatty acids linoleic and α-linolenic acid and derived long chain and very long chain ω3-and ω6-polyunsaturated fatty acids, are vital structures in mammalian membrane systems and signaling molecules, pivotal in brain development, lipid, and energy metabolism and in female and male fertility during human evolution. Numerous nutritional studies suggest imbalance of PUFA metabolism as a critical factor in the pathogenesis of several human lifestyle diseases: dyslipoproteinemia, obesity, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, and infertility. …”
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Classic Maya Settlement Systems Reveal Differential Land Use Patterns in the Upper Belize River Valley by John P. Walden, Julie A. Hoggarth, Claire E. Ebert, Scott L. Fedick, Michael Biggie, Brett Meyer, Kyle Shaw-Müller, Yijia Qiu, Weiyu Ran, Olivia P. Ellis, Tia B. Watkins, J. Britt Davis, Rafael A. Guerra, Christophe Helmke, Jaime J. Awe

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