If we restrict the use of Homo sapiens in the fossil record to specimens which share a
significant number of derived features in the skeleton with extant H. sapiens, the origin of our …

Modern humans differ from wild great apes in gestation length, weaning age, interbirth
interval, sexual maturity, and longevity, but evolutionary anthropologists do not know when …

Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses necessitate the destructive sampling of archaeological
material. Currently, the cochlea, part of the osseous inner ear located inside the petrous …

Since the first discovery of Pithecanthropus (Homo) erectus by E. Dubois at Trinil in 1891,
over 200 hominid dentognathic remains have been collected from the Early to Middle …

Until recently, our understanding of the evolution of human growth and development derived
from studies of fossil juveniles that employed extant populations for both age determination …

The phylogenetic position of Homo habilis is central to debates over the origin and early
evolution of the genus Homo. A large portion of the species hypodigm consists of dental …

Enamel thickness continues to be an important morphological character in hominin
systematics and is frequently invoked in dietary reconstructions of Plio-Pleistocene hominin …

The penecontemporaneous Middle Pleistocene sites of Fontana Ranuccio (Latium) and
Visogliano (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), set c. 450 km apart in central and northeastern Italy …

Excavations at the Longtan Cave, Hexian, Anhui Province of Eastern China, have yielded
several hominin fossils including crania, mandibular fragments, and teeth currently dated to …

Objectives Accurate sex estimation is an essential step for the reconstruction of the
biological profile of human remains. Earlier studies have shown that elements of the human …