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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Rapid evolution of the human mutation spectrum

    Kelley Harris, Jonathan K Pritchard
    Heritable mutations tend to occur within different DNA sequence contexts in different human populations, suggesting that DNA replication and repair often change in efficacy over only a few hundred generations of evolution.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis

    Anjali M Prabhat, Catherine K Miller ... Jeremy M DeSilva
    The human-like joint proportions of Australopithecus afarensis evolved independently, making 'Lucy' and her kind the earliest known evolutionary experiment in obligate bipedalism.
    1. Ecology
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Personality links with lifespan in chimpanzees

    Drew M Altschul, William D Hopkins ... Alexander Weiss
    Among captive chimpanzees, higher agreeableness males and higher openness females survive longer.
    1. Neuroscience

    OpenApePose, a database of annotated ape photographs for pose estimation

    Nisarg Desai, Praneet Bala ... Benjamin Hayden
    A dedicated dataset for non-human apes improves pose estimation and tracking accuracy in apes.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    New fossils of Australopithecus sediba reveal a nearly complete lower back

    Scott A Williams, Thomas Cody Prang ... Lee R Berger
    Newly recovered lumbar vertebrae belonging to Malapa Hominin 2, an adult female of the fossil hominin species Australopithecus sediba, demonstrate that this individual was adapted to upright posture and bipedal locomotion but also had adaptations for climbing in trees.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Recursive self-embedded vocal motifs in wild orangutans

    Adriano R Lameira, Madeleine E Hardus ... Marco Gamba
    Wild male orangutans produce long calls composed of two hierarchical layers, wherein isochronous sub-pulses occur within isochronous pulses, indicating that recursive vocal combinatorics are not exclusive to language among hominids.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Cell-type-specific cis-regulatory divergence in gene expression and chromatin accessibility revealed by human-chimpanzee hybrid cells

    Ban Wang, Alexander L Starr, Hunter B Fraser
    Exploring tissue-specific regulation of gene expression with human-chimpanzee hybrid cells helps us understand how life evolves and what makes us human.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Primate malarias as a model for cross-species parasite transmission

    Marina Voinson, Charles L Nunn, Amy Goldberg
    Ecological and evolutionary perspectives are critical to understand, predict, prevent, and treat malaria parasites that may spread to humans from our close primate relatives.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    The evolution of the vestibular apparatus in apes and humans

    Alessandro Urciuoli, Clément Zanolli ... David M Alba
    The morphology of the inner ear distinguishes major anthropoid clades and enables the proposal of various shared-derived features for apes as a whole, lesser apes, and great apes and humans.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Population Genetics: Global clues to the nature of genomic mutations in humans

    Aylwyn Scally
    An analysis of worldwide human genetic variation reveals the footprints of ancient changes in genomic mutation processes.
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