Proponents of the model known as the “human revolution” claim that modern human
behaviors arose suddenly, and nearly simultaneously, throughout the Old World ca. 40 …

Human biological and cultural evolution are closely linked to technological innovations.
Direct evidence for tool manufacture and use is absent before 2.5 million years ago (Ma), so …

It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk?
What if language was bequeathed to us not by word of mouth, but as a hand-me-down?The …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

The publication of a haplotype tree of human mitochondrial DNA variation in 1987 provoked
a controversy about the details of recent human evolution that continues to this day. Now …

South Asia is rich in Lower Paleolithic Acheulian sites. These have been attributed to the
Middle Pleistocene on the basis of a small number of dates, with a few older but disputed …

Over 60 years ago, stone tools and remains of megafauna were discovered on the
Southeast Asian islands of Flores, Sulawesi and Luzon, and a Middle Pleistocene …

The timing of the earliest habitation and oldest stone technologies in different regions of the
world remains a contentious topic in the study of human evolution,,,. Here we contribute to …

The Acheulean industrial complex combines technological variability with continuity on a
scale unparalleled by more recent industries. Acheulean variability includes a widely …