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Divergence-time estimates for hominins provide insight into encephalization and body mass trends in human evolution

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Quantifying speciation times during human evolution is fundamental as it provides a timescale to test for the correlation between key evolutionary transitions and extrinsic factors such as climatic or environmental change. Here, we applied a total evidence dating approach to a hominin phylogeny to estimate divergence times under different topological hypotheses. The time-scaled phylogenies were subsequently used to perform ancestral state reconstructions of body mass and phylogenetic encephal...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1038/s41559-021-01431-1

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0000-0002-6130-9322
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0000-0003-3461-3908
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0000-0001-9059-2203
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University of Oxford
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SSD
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SAME
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Nature Research Publisher's website
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Nature Ecology and Evolution Journal website
Volume:
5
Issue:
6
Pages:
808–819
Publication date:
2021-04-01
Acceptance date:
2021-02-25
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2397-334X
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English
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1170521
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pubs:1170521
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2021-04-04

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