Difference between revisions of "Evolutionary origin of human traits"

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Lieberman 2011|2011|Essay|Energy efficiency|Bipedalism|F
 
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Rodman & McHenry 1980|1980|Research article|Energy efficiency|Bipedalism|F
 
Rodman & McHenry 1980|1980|Research article|Energy efficiency|Bipedalism|F
Dávid-Barret & Dunbar 2016|2016|Research article|Energy efficiency|Bipedalism|N
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Sockol et al. 2007|2007|Research article|Energy efficiency|Bipedalism|F
 
Sockol et al. 2007|2007|Research article|Energy efficiency|Bipedalism|F
 
Leonard & Robertson 1995|1995|Comment|Energy efficiency|Bipedalism|F
 
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Videan & McGrew 2002|2002|Research article|Foraging|Bipedalism|F
 
Videan & McGrew 2002|2002|Research article|Foraging|Bipedalism|F
Dávid-Barret & Dunbar 2016|2016|Research article|Thermoregulation-b|Bipedalism|N
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Revision as of 07:25, 8 August 2016



Question

Why and how did humans become so different from other apes?

Answer

Rationale

There are conflicting hypotheses to explain why the traits that so clearly distinguish humans from other primates originally evolved. One idea is that the ancestors of humans came to live in a different kind of environment than the ancestors of chimpanzees and gorillas, and hence experienced different selection pressures and obtained a suite of unique traits as adaptations to the new environment. What that new environment was and which selection pressures were most important has been debated, however, and a number of hypotheses based on ideas other than environmental adaptation have also been proposed. To date, general discussion on the topic seems mostly to have focused on finding merit or flaws in one hypothesis at a time. The purpose of this page is to provide a structured forum for the general evaluation and comparison of the different hypotheses on human origins.

The answerers' opinions should be used as continuous [0,1] variables in such a way that each answer is transformed into its quantile of all answers to that question. Then neural networks, Bayesian belief network analyzers (such as B-source), or other statistical tools can be applied.

For single answer analyses, multinomial regression models should be applied.

Calculations

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Histograms

A code for drawing histograms from the literary review data showing the number of articles supporting and arguing against different hypotheses.

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Literary review summary

Hidden below you can find a summary of the articles found in a literary review on the evolution of human traits done in the summer 2016 to find out, which hypothesis on which human traits are currently discussed in scientific articles, and which according to them seem the most likely ways the human traits have evolved. F, A and N in the last column stand for For, Against and Neutral, according to which point of view is argued in the article about the hypothesis in question.



See also

Human evolution hypotheses described in Wikipedia:

Keywords

Human evolution, Bipedalism, Brain, Hairnessless, Subcutaneous fat, Speech

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