Proponents of the model known as the “human revolution” claim that modern human
behaviors arose suddenly, and nearly simultaneously, throughout the Old World ca. 40 …

Human biological and cultural evolution are closely linked to technological innovations.
Direct evidence for tool manufacture and use is absent before 2.5 million years ago (Ma), so …

Environmental theories of African faunal evolution state that important evolutionary changes
during the Pliocene–Pleistocene interval (the last ca. 5.3 million years) were mediated by …

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

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 …

The lack of an adequate hominid fossil record in eastern Africa between 2 and 3 million
years ago (Ma) has hampered investigations of early hominid phylogeny. Discovery of 2.5 …

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 …

The Hata Member of the Bouri Formation is defined for Pliocene sedimentary outcrops in the
Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. The Hata Member is dated to 2.5 million years ago and has …

The question of how modern human behaviour emerged from pre-human hominid
behaviour is central to discussions of human evolution. This important book argues that the …

Background Molecular phylogenetics has provided unprecedented resolution in the
ruminant evolutionary tree. However, molecular age estimates using only one or a few (often …