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5. Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania

Author

McNutt, Ellison J., Hatala, Kevin G., Miller, Catherine, Adams, James, Casana, Jesse, Deane, Andrew S., Dominy, Nathaniel J., Fabian, Kallisti, Fannin, Luke D., Gaughan, Stephen, Gill, Simone V., Gurtu, Josephat, Gustafson, Ellie, Hill, Austin C., Johnson, Camille, Kallindo, Said, and Kilham, Benjamin

Subjects
Anthropological research, Bipedalism -- Research, Footprints, Fossil -- Research, Hominids -- Physiological aspects -- Identification and classification, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of obligate bipedalism in the human lineage.sup.1-3. Another trackway discovered two years earlier at nearby site A was partially excavated and attributed to a hominin, but curious affinities with bears (ursids) marginalized its importance to the paleoanthropological community, and the location of these footprints fell into obscurity.sup.3-5. In 2019, we located, excavated and cleaned the site A trackway, producing a digital archive using 3D photogrammetry and laser scanning. Here we compare the footprints at this site with those of American black bears, chimpanzees and humans, and we show that they resemble those of hominins more than ursids. In fact, the narrow step width corroborates the original interpretation of a small, cross-stepping bipedal hominin. However, the inferred foot proportions, gait parameters and 3D morphologies of footprints at site A are readily distinguished from those at site G, indicating that a minimum of two hominin taxa with different feet and gaits coexisted at Laetoli. Reanalysis of bipedal trackways from Laetoli site A in Tanzania suggest that the footprints were made by a hominin that coexisted with at least one other hominin species., Author(s): Ellison J. McNutt [sup.1] [sup.2] , Kevin G. Hatala [sup.3] , Catherine Miller [sup.4] [sup.5] , James Adams [sup.6] [sup.7] , Jesse Casana [sup.4] [sup.5] , Andrew S. Deane [...]

Published
2021
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7. Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild nonhuman primate gut

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Mann, Allison E., Mazel, Florent, Lemay, Matthew A., Morien, Evan, Billy, Vincent, Kowalewski, Martin, Di Fiore, Anthony, Link, Andrés, Goldberg, Tony L., Tecot, Stacey, Baden, Andrea L., Gomez, Andres, Sauther, Michelle L., Cuozzo, Frank P., Rice, Gillian A. O., Dominy, Nathaniel J., Stumpf, Rebecca, Lewis, Rebecca J., Swedell, Larissa, Amato, Katherine, and Wegener Parfrey, Laura

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2020
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8. Global phylogeography and ancient evolution of the widespread human gut virus crAssphage

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Edwards, Robert A., Vega, Alejandro A., Norman, Holly M., Ohaeri, Maria, Levi, Kyle, Dinsdale, Elizabeth A., Cinek, Ondrej, Aziz, Ramy K., McNair, Katelyn, Barr, Jeremy J., Bibby, Kyle, Brouns, Stan J. J., Cazares, Adrian, de Jonge, Patrick A., Desnues, Christelle, Díaz Muñoz, Samuel L., Fineran, Peter C., Kurilshikov, Alexander, Lavigne, Rob, Mazankova, Karla, McCarthy, David T., Nobrega, Franklin L., Reyes Muñoz, Alejandro, Tapia, German, Trefault, Nicole, Tyakht, Alexander V., Vinuesa, Pablo, Wagemans, Jeroen, Zhernakova, Alexandra, Aarestrup, Frank M., Ahmadov, Gunduz, Alassaf, Abeer, Anton, Josefa, Asangba, Abigail, Billings, Emma K., Cantu, Vito Adrian, Carlton, Jane M., Cazares, Daniel, Cho, Gyu-Sung, Condeff, Tess, Cortés, Pilar, Cranfield, Mike, Cuevas, Daniel A., De la Iglesia, Rodrigo, Decewicz, Przemyslaw, Doane, Michael P., Dominy, Nathaniel J., Dziewit, Lukasz, Elwasila, Bashir Mukhtar, Eren, A. Murat, Franz, Charles, Fu, Jingyuan, Garcia-Aljaro, Cristina, Ghedin, Elodie, Gulino, Kristen M., Haggerty, John M., Head, Steven R., Hendriksen, Rene S., Hill, Colin, Hyöty, Heikki, Ilina, Elena N., Irwin, Mitchell T., Jeffries, Thomas C., Jofre, Juan, Junge, Randall E., Kelley, Scott T., Khan Mirzaei, Mohammadali, Kowalewski, Martin, Kumaresan, Deepak, Leigh, Steven R., Lipson, David, Lisitsyna, Eugenia S., Llagostera, Montserrat, Maritz, Julia M., Marr, Linsey C., McCann, Angela, Molshanski-Mor, Shahar, Monteiro, Silvia, Moreira-Grez, Benjamin, Morris, Megan, Mugisha, Lawrence, Muniesa, Maite, Neve, Horst, Nguyen, Nam-phuong, Nigro, Olivia D., Nilsson, Anders S., O’Connell, Taylor, Odeh, Rasha, Oliver, Andrew, Piuri, Mariana, Prussin II, Aaron J., Qimron, Udi, Quan, Zhe-Xue, Rainetova, Petra, Ramírez-Rojas, Adán, Raya, Raul, Reasor, Kim, Rice, Gillian A. O., Rossi, Alessandro, Santos, Ricardo, Shimashita, John, Stachler, Elyse N., Stene, Lars C., Strain, Ronan, Stumpf, Rebecca, Torres, Pedro J., Twaddle, Alan, Ugochi Ibekwe, MaryAnn, Villagra, Nicolás, Wandro, Stephen, White, Bryan, Whiteley, Andy, Whiteson, Katrine L., Wijmenga, Cisca, Zambrano, Maria M., Zschach, Henrike, and Dutilh, Bas E.

Published
2019
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14. Evolution and Function of Routine Trichromatic Vision in Primates

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Lucas, Peter W., Dominy, Nathaniel J., Riba-Hernandez, Pablo, Stoner, Kathryn E., Yamashita, Nayuta, Loría-Calderón, Esteban, Petersen-Pereira, Wanda, Rojas-Durán, Yahaira, Salas-Pena, Ruth, Solis-Madrigal, Silvia, Osorio, Daniel, and Darvell, Brian W.

Published
2003

15. Why Are Young Leaves Red?

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Dominy, Nathaniel J., Lucas, Peter W., Ramsden, Lawrence W., Riba-Hernandez, Pablo, Stoner, Kathryn E., and Turner, Ian M.

Published
2002

18. Sensory collectives in natural systems.

Author

Williams, Hannah J., Sridhar, Vivek H., Hurme, Edward, Gall, Gabriella E., Borrego, Natalia, Finerty, Genevieve E, Couzin, Iain D., Galizia, C. Giovanni, Dominy, Nathaniel J., Rowland, Hannah M., Hauber, Mark E., Higham, James P., Strandburg-Peshkin, Ariana, and Melin, Amanda D.

Published
2023
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20. Seed size and the evolution of leaf defences

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Kraft, Thomas S., Wright, S. Joseph, Turner, lan, Lucas, Peter W., Oufiero, Christopher E., Noor, Md. Nur Supardi, Sun, I-Fang, and Dominy, Nathaniel J.

Published
2015

29. Global Warming, Home Runs, and the Future of America's Pastime.

Author

Callahan, Christopher W., Dominy, Nathaniel J., DeSilva, Jeremy M., and Mankin, Justin S.

Subjects
*HOME runs (Baseball), *BASEBALL fields, *GLOBAL warming, *BASEBALL competitions, *ATMOSPHERIC models, *LEISURE
Abstract

Home runs in baseball—fair balls hit out of the field of play—have risen since 1980, driving strategic shifts in gameplay. Myriad factors likely account for these trends, with some speculating that global warming has contributed via a reduction in ballpark air density. Here we use observations from 100,000 Major League Baseball games and 240,000 individual batted balls to show that higher temperatures substantially increase home runs. We isolate human-caused warming with climate models, finding that >500 home runs since 2010 are attributable to historical warming. Several hundred additional home runs per season are projected due to future warming. Adaptations such as building domes on stadiums or shifting day games to night games reduce temperature's effects on America's pastime. Our results highlight the myriad ways that a warmer planet will restructure our lives, livelihoods, and recreation, some quantifiable and easily adapted to, as shown here, many others, not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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42. The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited.

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Veilleux, Carrie C., Dominy, Nathaniel J., and Melin, Amanda D.

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Twenty years ago, Dominy and colleagues published "The sensory ecology of primate food perception," an impactful review that brought new perspectives to understanding primate foraging adaptations. Their review synthesized information on primate senses and explored how senses informed feeding behavior. Research on primate sensory ecology has seen explosive growth in the last two decades. Here, we revisit this important topic, focusing on the numerous new discoveries and lines of innovative research. We begin by reviewing each of the five traditionally recognized senses involved in foraging: audition, olfaction, vision, touch, and taste. For each sense, we provide an overview of sensory function and comparative ecology, comment on the state of knowledge at the time of the original review, and highlight advancements and lingering gaps in knowledge. Next, we provide an outline for creative, multidisciplinary, and innovative future research programs that we anticipate will generate exciting new discoveries in the next two decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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49. Differentiating siliceous particulate matter in the diets of mammalian herbivores.

Author

Fannin, Luke D., Laugier, Elise J., van Casteren, Adam, Greenwood, Sabrina L., and Dominy, Nathaniel J.

Subjects
PARTICULATE matter, QUARTZ, PLANT life cycles, PLANT surfaces, HERBIVORES, SILICA, AIR pollutants
Abstract

Silica is crucial to terrestrial plant life and geochemical cycling on Earth. It is also implicated in the evolution of mammalian teeth, but there is debate over which type of siliceous particle has exerted the strongest selective pressure on tooth morphology.Debate revolves around the amorphous silica bodies (phytoliths) present in plants and the various forms of siliceous grit—that is, crystalline quartz (sand, soil, dust)—on plant surfaces. The problem is that conventional measures of silica often quantify both particle types simultaneously.Here we describe a protocol that relies on heavy‐liquid flotation to separate and quantify siliceous particulate matter in the diets of herbivores. The method is reproducible and well suited to detecting species‐ or population‐level differences in silica ingestion. In addition, we detected meaningful variation within the digestive tracts of cows, an outcome that supports the premise of ruminal fluid 'washing' of siliceous grit.We used bootstrap resampling to estimate the sample sizes needed to compare species, populations or individuals in space and time. We found that a minimum sample of 12 individuals is necessary if the species is a browser or as many as 55 if the species is a grazer, which are more variable. But a sample size of 20 is adequate for detecting statistical differences. We conclude by suggesting that our protocol for differentiating and quantifying silica holds promise for testing competing hypotheses on the evolution of dental traits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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