Although conveying an indisputable morphological and behavioral signal, traditional dietary
categories such as frugivorous or folivorous tend to group a wide range of food mechanical …

Interpreting morphological variation within the early hominin fossil record is particularly
challenging. Apart from the fact that there is no absolute threshold for defining species …

Because of its exceptional degree of preservation and its geological age of∼ 3.67 Ma, StW
573 makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of early hominin evolution and …

Phylogenetic relationships among extinct hominoids (apes and humans) are controversial
due to pervasive homoplasy and the incompleteness of the fossil record. The bony labyrinth …

Morphometric assessments of the dentition have played significant roles in hypotheses
relating to taxonomic diversity among extinct hominins. In this regard, emphasis has been …

The species Homo luzonensis has recently been described based on a set of dental and
postcranial elements found at Callao Cave (Northern Luzon, Philippines) and dated to at …

The hominin mandible SK 15 was discovered in April 1949 in Swartkrans Member 2, dated
to∼ 1.4 Ma. Albeit distorted on the right side, the left and right corpus of SK 15 are relatively …

Abstract Locality 1, in the Lower Cave of the Zhoukoudian cave complex, China, is one of
the most important Middle Pleistocene paleoanthropological and archaeological sites …

Late Miocene great apes are key to reconstructing the ancestral morphotype from which
earliest hominins evolved. Despite consensus that the late Miocene dryopith great apes …

A vast diversity of catarrhines primates has been uncovered in the Middle to Late Miocene
(12.5–9.6 Ma) of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (northeastern Spain), including several hominid …