How much arboreality characterized the Australopithecus locomotor repertoire and how this differed from early Homo are vigorously debated. Most previous studies rely on traits of uncertain functional ...

Knuckle walking is one hypothesized behavior of the Pan-Homo last common ancestor. We analyzed carpal morphology, including Euclidean distances between behavioral pairs, to investigate whether the ca...

Identification and proteomic analysis of bone fragments and teeth from an excavation in Southwest China provide insight into the evolution and phenotype of Denisovans and fill a geographical gap in th...

The average person takes thousands of steps each day, instinctively walking heel-to-toe. Although they hardly register them, those consistent heel-first strides are more distinctive to humans than pre...

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Anthropologists studying the hip bones of Homo floresiensis have discovered that its pelvis was human-like, raising new questions about the origin of the enigmatic species.

What did our ancestors eat? Current understanding of diet in human evolution is predicated on abundant animal foods and mastery of fire, both unlikely for early hominins. Using multiple lines of evide...

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Neocortical expansion is a key innovation of crown primates, although fossil evidence for how the neocortex has evolved remains elusive. We studied neocortical evolution using virtual brain endocasts ...

Upper premolar enamel thickness in Paranthropus robustus increased significantly over time, especially in the occlusal region.

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Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

Early Upper Palaeolithic stone tools appear in Japan around 38 thousand years ago and are unique from contemporaneous tools found elsewhere in eastern Eurasia. Here, the authors present an absolute ch...

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Objectives As animal brain size increases, cognitive performance generally increases. However, other key brain functions, such as the regulation of somatic processes, processing of sensory input, an...

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In the ’90s and ’00s, the Denver-based band 16 Horsepower perfected their own grandly gothic form of country-rock. They were obsessed with religion and apocalypse, and frontman David Eugene Edwards ha...

Palaeoproteomic analysis of ancient enamel proteins extracted from Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus specimens from the Zhoukoudian, Hexian and Sunjiadong sites in China suggests that they are a ne...

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This study indicates that the East African Rift System in northern Kenya may be closer to breaking apart than previously thought and that its development played an important role in the preservation o...

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Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

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We challenge the view that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved within a single population and/or region of Africa. The chronology and physical diversity of Pleistocene human fossils suggest that morpho...

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the essence of life.

Hominin dispersal out of Africa may have corresponded with exchanges of other fauna out of Africa. Here, the authors examine taxonomic and functional similarities in Eurasian and African fossil commun...

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Hundreds of genes selected in West Eurasia since farming began, many linked to health

In the recent past, evolutionarily speaking, every other kind of hominin, from the Neanderthals of western Eurasia to the ‘hobbits’ of Flores, became …

Measuring technological complexity across species, as well as across temporal and spatial scales, is an ongoing challenge among authors who work on primatological, archaeological, and/or ethnographic ...

A monumental archaeological excavation in Africa has uncovered the lives of the humans who lived there 100,000 years ago.

A detailed scan of a fossil therapsid embryo reveals the oldest egg belonging to a mammalian ancestor.

Containers are ubiquitous and universal across all present-day societies. The substantial increase in the quantity and diversity of containers in the …