Investigations into how climate change shaped human evolution have begun to focus on
environmental dynamics, ie, the nature and tempo of climate and landscape variability, an …

A central goal of paleoanthropology is understanding the role of ecological change in
hominin evolution. Over the past several decades researchers have expanded the hominin …

Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are
extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been …

Interaction of orbital insolation cycles defines a predictive model of alternating phases of
high-and low-climate variability for tropical East Africa over the past 5 million years. This …

In this review of the evidence for and against taxic diversity within the hominin clade, we
begin by looking at the logic and the history of simple “ladder‐like” interpretations of the …

Expanding grassy ecosystems through the late Cenozoic may have driven ecological and
evolutionary change in hominins and other African mammals. However, we lack a …

Although ecometric methods have been used to analyse fossil mammal faunas and
environments of Eurasia and North America, such methods have not yet been applied to the …

The possibility of a causal relationship between Earth history processes and hominin
evolution in Africa has been the subject of intensive paleoanthropological research for the …

Adaptations associated with shifting from a predominately forested habitat to a more open
environment are considered a crucial step in hominin evolution. Understanding how …

A large brain is a defining feature of modern humans, yet there is no consensus regarding
the patterns, rates and processes involved in hominin brain size evolution. We use a reliable …