Living hominoids are distinguished by upright torsos and versatile locomotion. It is
hypothesized that these features evolved for feeding on fruit from terminal branches in …

Current consensus holds that the 3-million-year-old hominid Australopithecus africanus
subsisted on fruits and leaves, much as the modern chimpanzee does. Stable carbon …

The oldest Oldowan tool sites, from around 2.6 million years ago, have previously been
confined to Ethiopia's Afar Triangle. We describe sites at Nyayanga, Kenya, dated to 3.032 …

Fossils from a large-bodied hominoid from early Miocene sediments of Uganda, along with
material recovered in the 1960s, show features of the shoulder and vertebral column that are …

Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million
years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of obligate bipedalism in …

Evolutionary Implications of Pliocene Hominid Footprints Page 1 References and Notes 1. JP
Goliub and HL Swinney, Phys. Rev. Lett. 35, 927 (1975). 2. JP Gollub, SL Hulbert, GM Dolny …

It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped
the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this …

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 …

Bipedal locomotion is one of the key adaptations that define the hominin clade. Evidence of
bipedalism is known from postcranial remains of late Miocene hominins as early as 6 million …

Hominin footprints offer evidence about gait and foot shape, but their scarcity, combined with
an inadequate hominin fossil record, hampers research on the evolution of the human gait …