Diet changes are considered key events in human evolution. Most studies of early hominin
diets focused on tooth size, shape, and craniomandibular morphology, as well as stone tools …

Through cultural innovation and changes in habitat and ecology, there have been a number
of major dietary shifts in human evolution, including meat eating, cooking, and those …

The oldest Oldowan tool sites, from around 2.6 million years ago, have previously been
confined to Ethiopia's Afar Triangle. We describe sites at Nyayanga, Kenya, dated to 3.032 …

Carbon isotope studies of early hominins from southern Africa showed that their diets
differed markedly from the diets of extant apes. Only recently, however, has a major influx of …

The manufacture of stone tools and their use to access animal tissues by Pliocene hominins
marks the origin of a key adaptation in human evolutionary history. Here we report an in situ …

Besides Homo erectus (sensu lato), the eastern African fossil record of early Homo has been
interpreted as representing either a single variable species, Homo habilis 1, or two species …

The East African hominin Paranthropus boisei was characterized by a suite of craniodental
features that have been widely interpreted as adaptations to a diet that consisted of hard …

Specimens of Australopithecus sediba from the site of Malapa, South Africa (dating from
approximately 2 million years (Myr) ago) present a mix of primitive and derived traits that …

Evidence of Oldowan tools by∼ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may signal a major adaptive shift
in hominin evolution. While tool-dependent butchery of large mammals was important by at …

A diverse assemblage of large mammals is spatially and stratigraphically associated with
Ardipithecus ramidus at Aramis. The most common species are tragelaphine antelope and …