Reconstructing the transition to bipedality is key to understanding early hominin evolution.
Because it is the best‐known early hominin species, Australopithecus afarensis forms a …

In this review we attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hominin life history from
extant and fossil evidence. We utilize demographic life history theory and distinguish life …

Despite a rich African Plio-Pleistocene hominin fossil record, the ancestry of Homo and its
relation to earlier australopithecines remain unresolved. Here we report on two partial …

Archaeology's main contribution to the debate over the origins of modern humans has been
investigating where and when modern human behavior is first recognized in the …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

What is it that makes us human? This is one of the most challenging and important questions
we face. Our species' defining characteristic is language-we appear to be unique in the …

Molecular data suggest that humans are more closely related to chimpanzees than either is
to the gorillas, yet one finds the closest similarity in craniofacial morphology to be among the …

The relationship between morphometrics and phylogenetic analysis has long been
controversial. Here we propose an approach that is based on map** morphometric traits …

Cranial morphology is widely used to reconstruct evolutionary relationships, but its reliability
in reflecting phylogeny and population history has been questioned. Some cranial regions …