Denisovans are members of a hominin group who are currently only known directly from
fragmentary fossils, the genomes of which have been studied from a single site, Denisova …

Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe witnessed the replacement
and partial absorption of local Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens populations of …

The Pleistocene presence of the genus Homo in continental Southeast Asia is primarily
evidenced by a sparse stone tool record and rare human remains. Here we report a Middle …

Comparative morphology, dealing with the diversity of form and shape, and functional
morphology, the study of the relationship between the structure and the function of an …

It has long been believed that Neanderthals originated and flourished on the European
continent. However, recent morphological and genetic studies have suggested that they may …

This guide to scoring crown and root traits in human dentitions substantially builds on a
seminal 1991 work by Turner, Nichol, and Scott. It provides detailed descriptions and …

It has been twenty years since diagnosis and publication of the species Homo antecessor. 1
Since then, new human fossils recovered from the TD6 level of the Gran Dolina site (Sierra …

The systematic excavation of the Sima de los Huesos (SH) site in Sierra de Atapuerca
(Burgos, Spain) has yielded the largest hominin collection worldwide for the Middle …

It is generally accepted that from the late Middle to the early Late Pleistocene (∼ 340–90 ka
BP), Neanderthals were occupying Europe and Western Asia, whereas anatomically …

Recent fossil and genetic data poses new questions about the degree of variability of the
Late Pleistocene fossils from China and the possible interaction of modern humans with …