The species Homo heidelbergensis is central to many discussions about recent human
evolution. For some workers, it was the last common ancestor for the subsequent species …

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 …

This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's
most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly …

Seventeen Middle Pleistocene crania from the Sima de los Huesos site (Atapuerca, Spain)
are analyzed, including seven new specimens. This sample makes it possible to thoroughly …

A key event in human evolution is the expansion of modern humans of African origin across
Eurasia between 60 and 40 thousand years (kyr) before present (bp), replacing all other …

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 “ladderlike” interpretations of the …

The worldwide association of H. erectus with elephants is well documented and so is the
preference of humans for fat as a source of energy. We show that rather than a matter of …

As only limited insight into behaviour is available from the archaeological record, much of
our understanding of historical changes in human cognition is restricted to identifying …

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer,
and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding …

Fossils of a Middle Pleistocene (MP) Homo within a well-defined archaeological context at
the open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel, shed light on MP Homo culture and behavior …