Humans are unique in many respects including being furless, striding bipeds that excel at
walking and running long distances in hot conditions. This review summarizes what we do …

Apes, members of the superfamily Hominoidea, possess a distinctive suite of anatomical
and behavioral characters which appear to have evolved relatively late and relatively …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

Habitual bipedalism is considered as a major breakthrough in human evolution and is the
defining feature of hominins. Upright posture is presumably less stable than quadrupedal …

The Ardipithecus ramidus hand and wrist exhibit none of the derived mechanisms that
restrict motion in extant great apes and are reminiscent of those of Miocene apes, such as …

Body mass is strongly related to both physiological and ecological properties of living
organisms. As a result, generating robust, broadly applicable models for estimating body …

A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution
Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and …

The full publication of Ardipithecus ramidus has particular importance for the origins of
hominin bipedality, and strengthens the growing case for an arboreal origin …