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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Evolving the human niche.

Erle C Ellis, Peter J Richerson, Alex Mesoudi, Jens-Christian Svenning, John Odling-Smee, William R Burnside

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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  2. Climate change and long-term human behaviour in the Neotropics: an archaeological view from the Global South.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  4. Assessing elements of an extended evolutionary synthesis for plant domestication and agricultural origin research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
    Article
  5. Reply to Ellis et al.: Human niche construction and evolutionary theory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Erle C EllisDepartment of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250; ece@umbc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-2006-3362
Peter J RichersonDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616;
Alex MesoudiHuman Biological and Cultural Evolution Group, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn TR10 9FE, United Kingdom;ORCID 0000-0002-7740-1625
Jens-Christian SvenningSection for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark;
John Odling-SmeeMansfield College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TF, United Kingdom;
William R BurnsideNational Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD 21401.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Biological EvolutionEcosystemHumans

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PMID27432994
PMCPMC4978239

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