The unveiling in October 2004 of the remains of a pygmy-sized hominin recovered from a
cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, sparked an intense series of debates within the …

Late in 2004, the skeletal remains of a pygmy-sized hominin recovered from a cave on the
Indonesian island of Flores were first documented, with the authors concluding that the …

Bipedalism is a defining trait of the hominin lineage, associated with a transition from a more
arboreal to a more terrestrial environment. While there is debate about when modern human …

Bipedalism is a key human adaptation and a defining feature of the hominin clade. Fossil
femora discovered in Kenya and attributed to Orrorin tugenensis, at 6 million years ago …

Almost 2 million years ago in what's now South Africa, a boy and a woman fell through a
hole in the ground into an underground cave, tumbling about 50 meters to their deaths. Then …

We review the evolution of human bipedal locomotion with a particular emphasis on the
evolution of the foot. We begin in the early twentieth century and focus particularly on …

Bipedalism is a defining trait of hominins, as all members of the clade are argued to possess
at least some characters indicative of this unusual form of locomotion. Traditionally the …

Partial skeletons of ancient hominins are extremely rare. When located, they present unique
opportunities for palaeo-anthropological enquiry. From East African Pliocene and early …

The remarkable partial adult skeleton (LB1) excavated from Liang Bua cave on the island of
Flores, Indonesia, has been attributed to a new species, Homo floresiensis, based upon a …

The 1924 African discovery of an early hominin child's skull, referred to as Australopithecus
africanus by Raymond Dart, was a major event in the history of paleoanthropology. This …