Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32270044›Full record

ArticleScience advances2020

Philipp Gunz, Simon Neubauer, Dean Falk, Paul Tafforeau, Adeline Le Cabec, Tanya M Smith, William H Kimbel, Fred Spoor, Zeresenay Alemseged

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Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
68.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Philipp GunzDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2350-4450
Simon NeubauerDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9113-5063
Dean FalkDepartment of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1654-0469
Paul TafforeauEuropean Synchotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS-40220, F-38043, Grenoble cedex 09, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5962-1683
Adeline Le CabecDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6948-4726
Tanya M SmithAustralian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd., Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8175-8208
William H KimbelInstitute of Human Origins, and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5082-2307
Fred SpoorDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8829-7421
Zeresenay AlemsegedDepartment of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0460-9791
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility · FRMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · DEArizona State University · USFlorida State University · USGriffith University · AUNatural History Museum · GBUniversity of Chicago · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human brains are three times larger, are organized differently, and mature for a longer period of time than those of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. Together, these characteristics are important for human cognition and social behavior, but their evolutionary origins remain unclear. To study brain growth and organization in the hominin species

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Biological EvolutionAge FactorsAnimalsBrainHominidaeHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalModels, AnatomicOrgan SizePan troglodytes

Identifiers

PMID32270044
PMCPMC7112758
OpenAlexW3014771935

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