This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

Increasing body and brain size constitutes a key macro-evolutionary pattern in the hominin
lineage, yet the mechanisms behind these changes remain debated. Hypothesized drivers …

Laetoli is a well-known palaeontological locality in northern Tanzania whose outstanding
record includes the earliest hominin footprints in the world (3.66 million years old) …

For more than 70 y researchers have looked to baboons (monkeys of the genus Papio) as a
source of hypotheses about the ecology and behavior of early hominins (early human …

Bipedal locomotion is one of the key adaptations that define the hominin clade. Evidence of
bipedalism is known from postcranial remains of late Miocene hominins as early as 6 million …

Quantifying speciation times during human evolution is fundamental as it provides a
timescale to test for the correlation between key evolutionary transitions and extrinsic factors …

Although the diminutive Homo floresiensis has been known for a decade, its phylogenetic
status remains highly contentious. A broad range of potential explanations for the evolution …

Late Pleistocene hominin postcranial specimens from Southeast Asia are relatively rare.
Here we describe and place into temporal and geographic context two partial femora from …

To understand how an extinct species may have moved, we first need to reconstruct the
missing soft tissues of the skeleton, which rarely preserve, with an understanding of …

Humans are uniquely unique, in terms of the extreme differences between them and other
living organisms, and the impact they are having on the biosphere. The evolution of humans …