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ArticleeLife2025

Meaning-making behavior in a small-brained hominin,

Agustín Fuentes, Marc Kissel, Penny Spikins, Keneiloe Molopyane, John Hawks, Lee R Berger

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Agustín FuentesDepartment of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0955-8214
Marc KisselDepartment of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4004-1996
Penny SpikinsDepartment of Archaeology, University of York, York, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9174-5168
Keneiloe MolopyaneCentre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey, School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1541-0059
John HawksCentre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey, School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3187-3755
Lee R BergerCentre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey, School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0367-7629

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Explorations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising Star cave system have yielded some of the earliest evidence of a mortuary practice in hominins. Because the evidence is attributable to the small-brained

Indexed as

Behavior, AnimalBiological EvolutionBrainFossilsHominidaeAnimalsCognitionHumansencephalization/cognitionevolutionary biologyHomo naledihuman evolutionmeaning-makingmortuary behaviorPleistocene

Identifiers

PMID40905960
PMCPMC12410969

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