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Darwin’s road not taken: white sclera, shared intentionality, niche construction, predator fear, teams and Homo origins

2023-11-04

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Palaeoanthropologists have yet to pinpoint how Homo evolved from Australopithecus. I propose niche construction ending predator ambush and stalking attacks, white sclera, and ultrafast team cognition were key.Human white sclera allows the quick, distant detection of line-of-sight. This is unique. In other primates, predators eliminate conspicuous-eyed individuals. Consequently, nonhuman primates have coloured scle...

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Literature Corpus work: 661884d6-f9d5-5d40-b14c-434055ad96c4
DOI: 10.32942/x2rp6m

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