Abstract Human tracks at White Sands National Park record more than one and a half
kilometres of an out-and-return journey and form the longest Late Pleistocene-age double …

For much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, multiple hominin species coexisted in the same
regions of eastern and southern Africa. Due to the limitations of the skeletal fossil record …

The human lineage transitioned to a more carnivorous niche 2.6 mya and evolved a large
body size and slower life history, which likely increased zoonotic pathogen pressure …

Fossil hominin footprints preserve data on a remarkably short time scale compared to most
other fossil evidence, offering snapshots of organisms in their immediate ecological and …

Accumulating evidence suggests that the phenotypes of human males were shaped by
contest competition, the mode of sexual selection in which mating opportunities are obtained …

In polygynous and polygynandrous species, there is often intense male-male competition
over access to females, high male reproductive skew, and more male investment in mating …

KNM-OG 45500 is a hominin fossil composed of parts of a frontal bone, left temporal bone,
and cranial vault pieces. Since its discovery along the Olorgesailie Formation (Kenya) in …

A major evolutionary transition in individuality involves the formation of a cooperative group
and the transformation of that group into an evolutionary entity. Human cooperation shares …

Hominin footprints have not traditionally played prominent roles in paleoanthropological
studies, aside from the famous 3.66 Ma footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania in the late …

Abstract Two Early Pleistocene fossils from Gona, Ethiopia, were originally assigned to
Homo erectus, and their differences in size and robusticity were attributed to either sexual …