The ca. 300 ka Paleolithic sites of Schöningen in northern Germany yielded a number of
localities with archeological and paleontological remains representing a rich …

The chemical environment, and the natural resources available in which our species has
evolved has been crucial for the establishment of our medical practices. Here we present a …

Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million
years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of obligate bipedalism in …

The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor
resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non …

Estimates of the human trophic level and dietary quality during the Paleolithic are the basis
for many hypotheses and interpretations regarding human evolution and behavior. We …

We hypothesize that megafauna extinctions throughout the Pleistocene, that led to a
progressive decline in large prey availability, were a primary selecting agent in key …

Tracks can provide unique, direct records of behaviors of fossil organisms moving across
their landscapes millions of years ago. While track discoveries have been rare in the human …

The giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) is one of the extinct Quaternary large mammal
species of southern Africa, and the largest equid from the Quaternary of Africa. Twenty-six …

China is a crucial region for investigating the relationship between climate change and
hominin evolution across diverse terrestrial ecosystems. With the continuous development of …

Although many studies relating stature to foot length have been carried out, the relationship
between foot size and body mass remains poorly understood. Here we investigate this …