We challenge the view that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved within a single population
and/or region of Africa. The chronology and physical diversity of Pleistocene human fossils …

Paleolithic archaeologists conceptualize the uniqueness of Homo sapiens in terms of
“behavioral modernity,” a quality often conflated with behavioral variability. The former is …

A key event in human evolution is the expansion of modern humans of African origin across
Eurasia between 60 and 40 thousand years (kyr) before present (bp), replacing all other …

We synthesize African paleoclimate from 150 to 30 ka (thousand years ago) using 85
diverse datasets at a regional scale, testing for coherence with North Atlantic …

The four to six month old infant from Border Cave, found with a perforated Conus shell in a
pit excavated in Howiesons Poort (HP) layers dated to 74±4 BP, is considered the oldest …

Despite broad consensus on Africa as the main place of origin for anatomically modern
humans, their dispersal pattern out of the continent continues to be intensely debated. In …

Background Later Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia remains poorly understood
owing to a scarcity of well described, reliably classified and accurately dated fossils …

Based on morphologically undiagnostic human remains from the southern Balkans and
central Europe, it has been argued that the Bachokirian and Ranisian industries stand for …

Human migration north through Africa is contentious. This paper uses a novel
palaeohydrological and hydraulic modelling approach to test the hypothesis that under …

The modern human expansion process out of Africa has important implications for
understanding the genetic and phenotypic structure of extant populations. While intensely …