Humans have evolved culturally and perhaps genetically to be unsustainable. We exhibit a
deep and consistent pattern of short-term resource exploitation behaviours and institutions …

BACKGROUND Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man, published on 24 February 1871, laid
the grounds for scientific studies into human origins and evolution. We look at the advances …

Despite its theoretical importance, the process of stone tool-making skill acquisition remains
understudied and poorly understood. The challenges and costs of skill learning constitute an …

In prehistoric human populations, technologies played a fundamental role in the acquisition
of different resources and are represented in the main daily living activities, such as with …

Stone tools provide some of the best remaining evidence of behavioral change over long
periods, but their cognitive and evolutionary implications remain poorly understood. Here …

When and how human ancestors first used tools remains unknown, despite intense research
into the origins of technology. It has been hypothesized that the evolutionary roots of stone …

Although hand grip strength is critical to the daily lives of humans and our arboreal great ape
relatives, the human hand has changed in form and function throughout our evolution due to …

Primate fingers are typically in direct contact with the environment during both locomotion
and manipulation, and aspects of external phalangeal morphology are known to reflect …

Stone tools provide key evidence of human cognitive evolution but remain challenging to
interpret. Stone tool skill-learning has been understudied even though (1) the most salient …

In 1994, Hunt published the 'postural feeding hypothesis'—a seminal paper on the origins of
hominin bipedalism—founded on the detailed study of chimpanzee positional behavior and …