Advanced geoscience techniques are essential to contextualize fossils, artefacts and other
archaeologically important material accurately and effectively. Their appropriate use will …

As observed in recent centuries, the contemporary variety of kinship systems reflects
millennia of human migration, cultural inheritance, adaptation, and diversification. This …

Quantifying speciation times during human evolution is fundamental as it provides a
timescale to test for the correlation between key evolutionary transitions and extrinsic factors …

The origins of Homo, as well as the diversity and biogeographic distribution of early Homo
species, remain critical outstanding issues in paleoanthropology. Debates about the …

The evolutionary relationships among extinct African hominin taxa are highly debated and
largely unresolved, due in part to a lack of molecular data. Even within taxa, it is not always …

Ontogeny provides critical information about the evolutionary history of early hominin adult
morphology. We describe fossils from the southern African sites of Kromdraai and Drimolen …

Insights into potential differences among the bony labyrinths of Plio-Pleistocene hominins
may inform their evolutionary histories and sensory ecologies. We use four recently …

The discovery and description of Australopithecus sediba has reignited the debate over the
evolutionary history of the australopiths and the genus Homo. It has been suggested that A …

More than 150 hominin teeth, dated to∼ 330–241 thousand years ago, were recovered
during the 2013–2015 excavations of the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system …

Most fossil hominin species are sampled with spatial, temporal or anatomical biases that can
hinder assessments of their paleodiversity, and may not yield genuine evolutionary signals …