Postcranial bones may provide valuable information about fossil taxa relating to their
locomotor habits, manipulative abilities and body sizes. Distinctive features of the …

Animal behavior is greatly shaped by the 'landscape of fear', induced by predation risk, and
the equivalent 'landscape of disgust', induced by parasitism or infection risk. However, the …

The habitual consumption of large-animal resources (eg, similar sized or larger than the
consumer) separates human and nonhuman primate behavior. Flaked stone tool use …

ABSTRACT A niche is the structural, temporal, and social context in which a species exists.
Over the last two million years, the human lineage underwent clear morphological changes …

The prime-adult-dominated mortality profile of large bovids in the 1.8 Ma FLK Zinj
assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, was recently attributed to ambush hunting by early …

Natural selection, as both a process and a scientific concept, is eloquently simple.
Unfortunately, this simplicity sometimes belies Darwin's broader view of evolution as a …

Resolving the issue of how Early Stone Age hominins acquired large mammal carcasses
requires information on their feeding interactions with large carnivores. This ecological …

Archaeological evidence informs our understanding of the evolution of hominin behaviour.
Such evidence is traditionally used to reconstruct hominin activities and intentions. In the …

Over the past three decades, controversial interpretations of the behavioral meaning of bone
surface modifications at FLK Zinj regarding primary or secondary access to carcasses by …

Mary Leakey's excavations at Olduvai Beds I and II provided an unparalleled wealth of data
on the archaeology of the early Pleistocene. We have been able to obtain axial orientations …