The authors here demonstrate that hominins were consistently and specifically procuring a single kind of raw material to make stone tools at the South African site of Jojosi between 220 and 110 thousa...

A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.

Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...

Emerging evidence has challenged the traditional view of a single-region origin for Homo sapiens, suggesting instead that our species arose and diversified across multiple geographically distinct popu...

Scientific Reports - Estimating trauma prevalence from incomplete human skeletal remains

Scientific Reports - The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos

High-resolution stratigraphic frameworks are crucial for unraveling the biocultural processes behind the dispersals of Homo sapiens across Europe. Detailed technological studies of lithic assemblages ...

An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

Scientific Reports - Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change

Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis

Scientific Reports - Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change

Scientific Data - Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource

Tooth morphology varies through evolution and in modern human populations, but little is known about the genetics of this variation. Li et al. identify genes associated with tooth crown dimensions and expressed during dental development. Variants in one gene stem from Neanderthal, suggesting their role in human dental evolution.