▪ Abstract Evolutionary trends in human body form provide important context for interpreting
variation among modern populations. Average body mass in living humans is smaller than it …

The fossil record of the human pelvis reveals the selective priorities acting on hominin
anatomy at different points in our evolutionary history, during which mechanical …

Techniques that are currently available for estimating stature and body mass from European
skeletal remains are all subject to various limitations. Here, we develop new prediction …

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 “ladder‐like” interpretations of the …

In this review we attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hominin life history from
extant and fossil evidence. We utilize demographic life history theory and distinguish life …

Important changes in the brain have occurred during the course of human evolution. Both
absolute and relative size increases can be documented for species of Homo, culminating in …

Analyses of the KNM-WT 15000 Homo erectus juvenile male partial skeleton from Kenya
concluded that this species had a tall thin body shape due to specialized locomotor and …

Current knowledge of the evolution of the postcranial skeleton in the genus Homo is
hampered by a geographically and chronologically scattered fossil record. Here we present …

This review begins by setting out the context and the scope of human evolution. Several
classes of evidence, morphological, molecular, and genetic, support a particularly close …

Ascertaining the timing of the peopling of Europe, after the first out-of-Africa demographic
expansion at the end of the Pliocene, is of great interest to paleoanthropologists. One of the …