The modern human hand is an intriguing mix of primitive morphology and derived function.
Traditionally, its form and function are explained as a functional “trade‐off” between the …

Stone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution evidence of
behavioral change over human evolution, but their implications for cognitive evolution have …

Teaching is present in all human societies, while within other species it is very limited.
Something happened during the evolution of Homo sapiens that also made us Homo …

For many years, intuition and common sense often guided the transference of patterning
ostensibly evident in experimental flintknapping results to interpretations of the …

Stone tools provide some of the best remaining evidence of behavioral change over long
periods, but their cognitive and evolutionary implications remain poorly understood. Here …

Stone-flaking technology is the most enduring evidence for the evolving cognitive abilities of
our early ancestors. Flake-making was mastered by African hominins~ 3.3 ma, followed by …

The proximal-to-distal sequence is a phenomenon that can be observed in a large variety of
motions of the upper limbs in both humans and other mammals. The mechanisms behind …

Abstract Over the 1.5-million-year duration of the Acheulean, there is considerable variation
in biface finesse. It is not clear, however, if there is an improvement in biface knapping ability …

Despite occupying a central geographic position, investigations of hominin populations in
the Arabian Peninsula during the Lower Palaeolithic period are rare. The colonization of …

The evolution of the hominin hand has been widely linked to the use and production of
flaked stone tool technologies. After the earliest handheld flake tools emerged, shifts in …