Thomas A. Püschel

This study uses phylogenetic meta-analysis to show that human handedness is linked to large brain size and upright posture, distinguishing it from other primates.

The paper analyzes infant corpse carrying in Pan to show it is influenced by maternal behavior, death context, and life history, suggesting cognitive frameworks for death recognition evolved after the Pan-Homo split.

This study shows that hominin brain size increase over 7 million years came from within-species changes, not between-species differences, and that this trend accelerated over time.

This study uses Bayesian phylogenetic methods to analyze hominin fossil data and finds that colder and more variable temperatures positively influence brain size evolution within species, but this effect weakens in later Homo species.