We know that there are fundamental differences between humans and living apes, and also
between living humans and their extinct relatives. It is also probably the case that the most …

Human evolutionary scholars have long supposed that the earliest stone tools were made
by the genus Homo and that this technological development was directly linked to climate …

Abstract The Omo‐Turkana Basin, including the hominin fossil sites around Lake Turkana
and the sites along the lower reaches of the Omo River, has made and continues to make an …

Hominin fossil evidence in the Turkana Basin in Kenya from ca. 4.1 to 1.4 Ma samples two
archaic early hominin genera and records some of the early evolutionary history of …

The discovery of the earliest known stone tools at Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) from West Turkana,
Kenya, dated to 3.3 Ma, raises new questions about the mode and tempo of key adaptations …

Newly exposed cave sediments at the Malapa site include a flowstone layer cap** the
sedimentary unit containing the Australopithecus sediba fossils. Uranium-lead dating of the …

The phylogenetic position of Homo habilis is central to debates over the origin and early
evolution of the genus Homo. A large portion of the species hypodigm consists of dental …

Underground storage organs (USOs) have been proposed as critical fallback foods for early
hominins in savanna, but there has been little discussion as to which habitats would have …

Fossils of early Homo and Paranthropus have been recovered from several sites in southern
Africa. Unfortunately, their precise age has historically been difficult to assess, hampering …

Recent discoveries constrain the presence of hominins in North Africa since ca. 2.4 Ma and
in China since ca. 2.1 Ma, providing a new temporal framework for the earliest migration out …