Adaptive explanations for modern human foot anatomy have long fascinated evolutionary
biologists because of the dramatic differences between our feet and those of our closest …

Comparative analyses are the backbone of evolutionary analysis. However, their record in
producing a consensus has not always been good. This is especially true of attempts to …

Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human
colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated …

Body size directly influences an animal's place in the natural world, including its energy
requirements, home range size, relative brain size, locomotion, diet, life history, and …

Investigations at Happisburgh, UK, have revealed the oldest known hominin footprint
surface outside Africa at between ca. 1 million and 0.78 million years ago. The site has long …

Laetoli is a well-known palaeontological locality in northern Tanzania whose outstanding
record includes the earliest hominin footprints in the world (3.66 million years old) …

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 …

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 …

The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor
resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non …

Bipedalism is a defining feature of the human lineage. Despite evidence that walking on two
feet dates back 6–7 Ma, reconstructing hominin gait evolution is complicated by a sparse …