For more than 70 y researchers have looked to baboons (monkeys of the genus Papio) as a
source of hypotheses about the ecology and behavior of early hominins (early human …

The chemical environment, and the natural resources available in which our species has
evolved has been crucial for the establishment of our medical practices. Here we present a …

It is axiomatic that knowledge of the diets of extinct hominin species is central to any
understanding of their ecology and our evolution. The importance of diet in the …

How animals respond to seasonal resource availability has profound implications for their
dietary flexibility and realized ecological niches. We sought to understand seasonal dietary …

New approaches to the study of early hominin diets have refreshed interest in how and
when our diets diverged from those of other African apes. A trend toward significant …

Woody plants and grasses are two functionally distinct food groups that pose different
mechanical, nutritional, and ecological challenges to herbivores. Accordingly, herbivores …

New geochemical data from the Malawi Rift (Chiwondo Beds, Karonga Basin) fill a major
spatial gap in our knowledge of hominin adaptations on a continental scale. Oxygen (δ18O) …

It has been suggested that a shift in diet is one of the key adaptations that distinguishes the
genus Homo from earlier hominins, but recent stable isotopic analyses of fossils attributed to …

Carbon isotopic analysis has been challenging our ideas about hominin diet for nearly 30
years. The first study in 1994 revealed that Paranthropus robustus from South Africa …

Since the discovery of Paranthropus boisei alongside early Homo at Olduvai Gorge and
East Turkana, paleoanthropologists have attempted to understand the different evolutionary …