The naming of Australopithecus africanus in 1925, based on the Taung Child, heralded a
new era in human evolutionary studies and turned the attention of the then Eurasian-centric …

Hominoids diverged from cercopithecoids during the Oligocene in Afro-Arabia, initially
radiating in that continent and subsequently dispersing into Eurasia. From the Late Miocene …

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 …

The search for drivers of hominin speciation and extinction has tended to focus on the
impact of climate change. Far less attention has been paid to the role of interspecific …

A partial left femur (TM 266-01-063) was recovered in July 2001 at Toros-Menalla, Chad, at
the same fossiliferous location as the late Miocene holotype of Sahelanthropus tchadensis …

The modern human hand is an intriguing mix of primitive morphology and derived function.
Traditionally, its form and function are explained as a functional “trade‐off” between the …

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 …

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 …

Ontogeny provides critical information about the evolutionary history of early hominin adult
morphology. We describe fossils from the southern African sites of Kromdraai and Drimolen …

Paranthropus robustus is a small-brained extinct hominin from South Africa characterized by
derived, robust craniodental morphology. The most complete known skull of this species is …