Reconstructing the transition to bipedality is key to understanding early hominin evolution.
Because it is the best‐known early hominin species, Australopithecus afarensis forms a …

This paper reviews information on past vegetation of tropical Africa during the Cenozoic,
focused upon the last 10Ma, a time spanning hominid record in Central and East Africa …

Argon isotopic dating is one of the most important techniques for estimating the ages of
rocks and can be used on very small samples. It has been used to assign reliable ages to …

Environmental theories of African faunal evolution state that important evolutionary changes
during the Pliocene–Pleistocene interval (the last ca. 5.3 million years) were mediated by …

The origin of anatomically modern Homo sapiens and the fate of Neanderthals have been
fundamental questions in human evolutionary studies for over a century1–4. A key barrier to …

Seventeen hominoid fossils recovered from Pliocene strata at Aramis, Middle Awash,
Ethiopia make up a series comprising dental, cranial and postcranial specimens dated to …

Remains of an early hominid have been recovered from four localities in the Lukeino
Formation, Tugen Hills, Kenya, in sediments aged ca 6 Ma. 13 fossils are known, belonging …

Nine hominid dental, cranial and postcranial specimens from Kanapoi, Kenya, and 12
specimens from Allia Bay, Kenya, are described here as a new species of Australopithecus …

The fossil record suggests that modern human morphology evolved in Africa between
150,000 and 50,000 years ago, when the sole inhabitants of Eurasia were the Neanderthals …

Clarifying the geographic, environmental and behavioural contexts in which the emergence
of anatomically modern Homo sapiens occurred has proved difficult, particularly because …