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

Abstract Africa from Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 6-2 saw the crystallization of long-term
evolutionary processes that culminated in our species' anatomical form, behavioral …

This chapter seeks to identify directions along which future research into the population
dynamics of African hunter-gatherer communities and the paleoenvironmental context in …

We challenge the view that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved within a single population
and/or region of Africa. The chronology and physical diversity of Pleistocene human fossils …

Abstract Eastern Africa (broadly Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and
Tanzania) has yielded the earliest fossils of modern humans, the earliest evidence for Mode …

Environmental theories of African faunal evolution state that important evolutionary changes
during the Pliocene–Pleistocene interval (the last ca. 5.3 million years) were mediated by …

Elucidating the history of Homo sapiens has been a passion shared by many researchers
spanning several decades. There are now overwhelming lines of evidence from genetic …

Although best known for its fossil hominins, the Omo‐Turkana Basin of Kenya and Ethiopia
is the source of one of the best records of vertebrate evolution from the Late Cenozoic of …

Although questions of modern human origins and dispersal are subject to intense research
within and outside Africa, the processes of modern human diversification during the Late …

Evidence of early Homo sapiens populations at the Atlantic coast of Africa remains relatively
poorly known in relation to other regions of the continent. Nevertheless, available data …