Primate societies are characterized by bonded social relationships of a kind that are rare in
other mammal taxa. These bonded relationships, which provide the basis for coalitions, are …

The human brain is one of the most intricate, complicated, and impressive organs ever to
have evolved. Understanding its evolution requires integrating knowledge from a variety of …

It has recently become clear that several human lineages coexisted with Homo sapiens
during the late Middle and Late Pleistocene. Here, we report an archaic human fossil that …

The current paper synthesizes theory and data from the field of life history (LH) evolution to
advance a new developmental theory of variation in human LH strategies. The theory posits …

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are
designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via …

What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we
survive, and other human species fail? The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the …

Previous research has identified morphological differences between the brains of
Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs). However, studies using endocasts …

Humans never run out of things to say. We explain, we cajole, we gossip, and we flirt--all
with the help of language. But how in the space of several million years did we evolve from …

This is the first textbook of Virtual Anthropology, the new science that combines elements
from fields as diverse as anthropology, medicine, statistics, computing, scientific …

In this latest volume in the Human Evolution Series, Erik Trinkaus and his co-authors
synthesize the research and findings concerning the human remains found at the Sunghir …