Reconstructing the transition to bipedality is key to understanding early hominin evolution.
Because it is the best‐known early hominin species, Australopithecus afarensis forms a …

Some of the most long‐standing questions in paleoanthropology concern how and why
human bipedalism evolved. Over the last century, many hypotheses have been offered on …

Hand bones from a single individual with a clear taxonomic affiliation are scarce in the
hominin fossil record, which has hampered understanding the evolution of manipulative …

In the 1970s, mid‐Pliocene hominin fossils were found at the sites of Hadar in Ethiopia and
Laetoli in Tanzania. These samples constituted the first substantial evidence for hominins …

The hominid species Australopithecus anamensis was originally described in 1995, with
new specimens and more secure dates given in 1998. This paper lists all fossils attributed to …

Jack Stern is Professor and Chair of Anatomical Sciences at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook. He began his career as a comparative primate anatomist and soon …

Molecular evidence indicates that the last common ancestor of the genus Pan and the
hominin clade existed between 8 and 4 million years ago (Ma). The current fossil record …

A nearly complete right hand of an adult hominin was recovered from the Rising Star cave
system, South Africa. Based on associated hominin material, the bones of this hand are …

New discoveries and dating of fossil remains from the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of
Humankind, South Africa, have strong implications for our understanding of Pleistocene …

Based on our knowledge of locomotor biomechanics and ecology we predict the locomotion
and posture of the last common ancestors of (a) great and lesser apes and their close fossil …