If we restrict the use of Homo sapiens in the fossil record to specimens which share a
significant number of derived features in the skeleton with extant H. sapiens, the origin of our …

The common ancestor of modern humans and the great apes is estimated to have lived
between 5 and 8 Myrs ago, but the earliest evidence in the human, or hominid, fossil record …

A decade ago, we summarised the South African and Lesotho Stone Age technocomplex
sequence as a heuristic exercise, anchored in 242 dated assemblages (Lombard et al …

New discoveries and dating of fossil remains from the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of
Humankind, South Africa, have strong implications for our understanding of Pleistocene …

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 fact that rapid brain size increase was clearly a key aspect of human evolution has
prompted many studies focusing on this phenomenon, and many suggestions as to the …

Previous scientific consensus saw human evolution as defined by adaptive differences
(behavioural and/or biological) and the emergence of Homo sapiens as the ultimate …

North Africa is a key area for understanding hominin population movements and the
expansion of our species. It is home to the earliest currently known Homo sapiens (Jebel …

Highlights•A data-driven methodology learns a vermiculite distribution model affected by
wind.•The model produces a low generalization error for predicted distribution density.•The …

The question how to correctly evaluate fatigue test data in order to establish the reference
value ΔσC of the characteristic fatigue strength of steel structures according to the safety …