Current evidence suggests that all of the major events in hominin evolution have occurred in
East Africa. Over the last two decades, there has been intensive work undertaken to …

In this paper it is proposed that the prefrontal lobe participates in two closely related but
different executive function abilities:(1)“metacognitive executive functions”: problem solving …

Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are
extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been …

Investigations into how climate change shaped human evolution have begun to focus on
environmental dynamics, ie, the nature and tempo of climate and landscape variability, an …

Research on humans at high-altitudes contributes to understanding the processes of human
adaptation to the environment and evolution. The unique stress at high altitude is hypobaric …

The history of Eastern African hominids has been linked to a progressive increase of open
grassland during the past 8 million years. This trend was explained by global climatic …

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 …

Aridification is often considered a major driver of long-term ecological change and hominin
evolution in eastern Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene; however, this hypothesis remains …

In the 1970s, mid‐Pliocene hominin fossils were found at the sites of Hadar in Ethiopia and
Laetoli in Tanzania. These samples constituted the first substantial evidence for hominins …

Present-day African ecosystems serve as referential models for conceptualizing the
environmental context of early hominin evolution, but the degree to which modern …