Broca’s area, variation and taxic diversity in early Homo from Koobi Fora (Kenya) [PDF]
eLife, 2023 Because brain tissues rarely fossilize, pinpointing when and how modern human cerebral traits emerged in the hominin lineage is particularly challenging.
Amélie Beaudet, Edwin de Jager
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Characterizing the evolutionary path(s) to early Homo. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Numerous studies suggest that the transition from Australopithecus to Homo was characterized by evolutionary innovation, resulting in the emergence and coexistence of a diversity of forms.
Lauren Schroeder +3 more
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Insights into the palaeobiology of an early Homo infant: multidisciplinary investigation of the GAR IVE hemi-mandible, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Childhood is an ontogenetic stage unique to the modern human life history pattern. It enables the still dependent infants to achieve an extended rapid brain growth, slow somatic maturation, while benefitting from provisioning, transitional feeding, and ...
Adeline Le Cabec +10 more
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Dental morphology in Homo habilis and its implications for the evolution of early Homo [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe 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 remains, but they have only been studied at the often worn enamel surface ...
Thomas W. Davies +10 more
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Evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe evolution of cranial morphology in the genus Homo is marked by increasing encephalization and reduced facial robusticity through time. These changes are often assumed to be the product of directional natural selection for larger brain size, presumed ...
Mark Hubbe, Katerina Harvati
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What the eastern African stone tool evidence tells us about Plio-Pleistocene hominin extinctions [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: ExtinctionThis paper examines the stone tool evidence associated with extinctions among Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo in Eastern Africa between 0.8 and 3.5 Ma.
John J. Shea
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Ledi-Geraru strikes again: Morphological affinities of the LD 350-1 mandible with early Homo [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2023 The origins of the genus Homo have been a focus of much debate in the paleoanthropological literature due to its importance in understanding the evolutionary trajectories that led to the appearance of archaic humans and our species.
WALTER NEVES +4 more
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Long-term patterns of body mass and stature evolution within the hominin lineage [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Body size is a central determinant of a species' biology and adaptive strategy, but the number of reliable estimates of hominin body mass and stature have been insufficient to determine long-term patterns and subtle interactions in these size components ...
Manuel Will +2 more
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Taxonomic identification of Lower Pleistocene fossil hominins based on distal humeral diaphyseal cross-sectional shape [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 The coexistence of multiple hominin species during the Lower Pleistocene has long presented a challenge for taxonomic attribution of isolated postcrania.
Michael R. Lague
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First early hominin from central Africa (Ishango, Democratic Republic of Congo). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Despite uncontested evidence for fossils belonging to the early hominin genus Australopithecus in East Africa from at least 4.2 million years ago (Ma), and from Chad by 3.5 Ma, thus far there has been no convincing evidence of Australopithecus ...
Isabelle Crevecoeur +12 more
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