Background Until recently, the evolution of the genus Homo has been interpreted in the
context of the onset of African aridity and the expansion of open grasslands. Homo erectus …

Animals in captive or laboratory settings may outperform wild animals of the same species in
both frequency and diversity of tool use, a phenomenon here termed 'captivity bias' …

Aim To determine the historical dynamics of colonization and whether the relative timing of
colonization predicts diversification rate in the species‐rich, murine rodent communities of …

Aim The island rule has been widely applied to a range of taxonomic groups, with some
studies reporting supporting evidence but others questioning this hypothesis. To bring more …

Liang Bua, the type site of Homo floresiensis, is a limestone cave on the Indonesian island
of Flores with sedimentary deposits currently known to range in age from about 190 …

The thousands of islands east of Huxley's Line have never formed a single land mass or
been connected to Sunda or Sahul. The earliest records of hominins in this area are stone …

The Haţeg Island fauna of the terminal Late Cretaceous (ca. 71–65 million years ago) of
Romania is one of the most unusual dinosaur assemblages in the global fossil record. It has …

The finding of archaeological evidence predating 1 Ma and a small hominin species (Homo
floresiensis) on Flores, Indonesia, has stimulated much research on its origins and ancestry …

Motivation Historical changes in sea level caused shifting coastlines that affected the
distribution and evolution of marine and terrestrial biota. At the onset of the Last Glacial …

This paper describes in detail the external morphology of LB1/1, the nearly complete and
only known cranium of Homo floresiensis. Comparisons were made with a large sample of …