Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years

J Galway‐Witham, J Cole… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

[HTML][HTML] Direct dating of human fossils and the ever-changing story of human evolution

R Gruen, C Stringer - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
This review is a follow up to Grün et al.(2006): Direct Dating of Human Fossils. Since that
time there has been progress on the experimental side of the geochronological analyses …

The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

PHGM Dirks, EM Roberts, H Hilbert-Wolf, JD Kramers… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
New ages for flowstone, sediments and fossil bones from the Dinaledi Chamber are
presented. We combined optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments with U-Th …

[BOOK][B] The emergence and evolution of religion: By means of natural selection

J Turner, A Maryanski, AK Petersen, AW Geertz - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of
addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all …

New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa

J Hawks, M Elliott, P Schmid, SE Churchill, DJ Ruiter… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The Rising Star cave system has produced abundant fossil hominin remains within the
Dinaledi Chamber, representing a minimum of 15 individuals attributed to Homo naledi …

Homo naledi and Pleistocene hominin evolution in subequatorial Africa

LR Berger, J Hawks, PHGM Dirks, M Elliott, EM Roberts - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
New discoveries and dating of fossil remains from the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of
Humankind, South Africa, have strong implications for our understanding of Pleistocene …

Dental evolutionary rates and its implications for the Neanderthal–modern human divergence

A Gómez-Robles - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
The origin of Neanderthal and modern human lineages is a matter of intense debate. DNA
analyses have generally indicated that both lineages diverged during the middle period of …

[HTML][HTML] Burials and engravings in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications

A Fuentes, M Kissel, P Spikins, K Molopyane, J Hawks… - eLife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Data from recent explorations in the Dinaledi subsystem illustrates one of the earliest
examples of a mortuary practice in hominins and offers the earliest evidence of multiple …

Ardipithecus hand provides evidence that humans and chimpanzees evolved from an ancestor with suspensory adaptations

TC Prang, K Ramirez, M Grabowski, SA Williams - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
The morphology and positional behavior of the last common ancestor of humans and
chimpanzees are critical for understanding the evolution of bipedalism. Early 20th century …

Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

S Semaw, MJ Rogers, SW Simpson, NE Levin… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Although stone tools generally co-occur with early members of the genus Homo, they are
rarely found in direct association with hominins. We report that both Acheulian and Oldowan …