Recent developments in the field of palaeoanthropology necessitate the suppression of two
hominin taxa and the introduction of a new species of hominins to help resolve the current …

In this review of the evidence for and against taxic diversity within the hominin clade, we
begin by looking at the logic and the history of simple “ladder‐like” interpretations of the …

Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Fourth Edition provides key features of extant families
and references to more detailed texts. The book sets the scene and creates space for a …

Hominid fossils predating the emergence of Australopithecus have been sparse and
fragmentary. The evolution of our lineage after the last common ancestor we shared with …

Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. Do
objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of things they are in spite of the changes …

Understanding changes in ontogenetic development is central to the study of human
evolution. With the exception of Neanderthals, the growth patterns of fossil hominins have …

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 …

There is considerable debate over the level of size dimorphism and inferred social behavior
of Australopithecus afarensis. Most previous studies have analyzed size variation in single …

The cranial morphology of the earliest known hominins in the genus Australopithecus
remains unclear. The oldest species in this genus (Australopithecus anamensis, specimens …

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 …