The question of the mode of origin of modern humans (Homo sapiens) has dominated
palaeoanthropological debate over the last decade. This review discusses the main models …

Australia's oldest human remains, found at Lake Mungo, include the world's oldest ritual
ochre burial (Mungo III) and the first recorded cremation (Mungo I). Until now, the importance …

Abstract The signature of Dansgaard–Oeschger events—millennial-scale abrupt climate
oscillations during the last glacial period—is well established in ice cores and marine …

The origin of our capacity for language is a complex topic, requiring input from many
disparate fields, from linguistics to paleoanthropology. Specialists in any one field are often …

The tau (MAPT) locus exists as two distinct clades, H1 and H2. The H1 clade has a normal
linkage disequilibrium structure and is the only haplotype found in all populations except …

The process by which the Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans between 42,000
and 30,000 before present is still intriguing. Although no Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA …

During the late Pleistocene, early anatomically modern humans coexisted in Europe with the
anatomically archaic Neandertals for some thousand years. Under the recent variants of the …

In humanity's more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures
clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of …

Non-occlusal, buccal tooth microwear variability has been studied in 68 fossil humans from
Europe and the Near East. The microwear patterns observed suggest that a major shift in …

The Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption from the Phlegraean Fields Caldera, southern Italy,
represents one of the largest late Quaternary volcanic event. Its recent dating at 39,280±110 …