Plio-Pleistocene environmental change influenced the evolutionary history of many animal
lineages in Africa, highlighting key roles for both climate and tectonics in the evolution of …

Abstract 'Still Bay'is the name given to a cultural phase within the southern African Middle
Stone Age, which remains critical to our understanding of modern human behavioural …

The" Tripartite" model of the peopling of the New World presents the hypothesis that all
Native American linguistic, dental, and genetic variation was the result of three migratory" …

Domestic cattle have contributed both to the rise of civilizations and the global loss of
biodiversity, but the timing and mechanism of their domestication history remain to be fully …

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 …

The Jebel Qatrani Formation of northern Egypt has produced Afro-Arabia's primary record of
Paleogene mammalian evolution, including the world's most complete remains of early …

Recent discoveries of older and phylogenetically more primitive basal anthropoids in China
and Myanmar, the eosimiiforms, support the hypothesis that Asia was the place of origins of …

There is much debate on the dietary adaptations of the robust hominin lineages during the
Pliocene-Pleistocene transition. It has been argued that the shift from C3 to C4 ecosystems …

Adapiform or 'adapoid'primates first appear in the fossil record in the earliest Eocene epoch
(∼ 55 million years (Myr) ago), and were common components of Palaeogene primate …

Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data,
this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' …