I've been co-teaching a course for several years in which we read Sapiens . I think I've read it eight times, now. That explains the gumband...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human

IntroductionThe association between an open habitat (e.g., savannah-mosaics) and increased terrestriality is central to hypotheses of hominin evolution, espe...

IntroductionThe association between an open habitat (e.g., savannah-mosaics) and increased terrestriality is central to hypotheses of hominin evolution, espe...

It's hard to tell when—and why—our ancestors got down from trees and started walking on two legs. Many early hominins capable of bipedal walking were also well-adapted for climbing, and we lack fossil...

There is debate over the importance of the arboreal niche in hominid evolution.1,2,3,4,5,6 Gorillas are considered to be primarily terrestrial,7,8,9,1…

In Homo sapiens, facial growth stops at puberty.

The Human Fossil Record: A Digital Resource for Research and Education