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 …

Accurate divergence date estimates improve scenarios of primate evolutionary history and
aid in interpretation of the natural history of disease-causing agents. While molecule-based …

The genetic divergence time between two species varies substantially across the genome,
conveying important information about the timing and process of speciation. Here we …

The relationship between locomotor behavior and long bone structural proportions is
examined in 179 individuals and 13 species of hominoids and cercopithecoids. Articular …

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 …

The Asian apes, more than any other, are restricted to an arboreal habitat. They are
consequently an important model in the interpretation of the morphological commonalities of …

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

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 …

Kinship, religion, and economy were not" natural" to humans, nor to species of apes that had
to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings involved an uneasy …

During the last century, approximately 30 hypotheses have been constructed to explain the
evolution of the human upright posture and locomotion. The most important and recent ones …