Diet changes are considered key events in human evolution. Most studies of early hominin
diets focused on tooth size, shape, and craniomandibular morphology, as well as stone tools …

There is a growing consensus in early hominin studies that savannas did not play a
significant role in the emergence of human evolutionary processes. Early hominins have …

The oldest Oldowan tool sites, from around 2.6 million years ago, have previously been
confined to Ethiopia's Afar Triangle. We describe sites at Nyayanga, Kenya, dated to 3.032 …

50,000 years ago–merely a blip in evolutionary time–our Homo sapiens ancestors were
competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had …

A large stable isotope dataset from East and Central Africa from ca. 30 regional collection
sites that range from forest to grassland shows that most extant East and Central African …

Carbon isotope studies of early hominins from southern Africa showed that their diets
differed markedly from the diets of extant apes. Only recently, however, has a major influx of …

Since the origin of early Homo species during the Late Pliocene, interactions of humans with
scavenging birds and mammals have changed in form through shifting ecological scenarios …

What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we
survive, and other human species fail? The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the …

The wear of teeth is a major factor limiting mammalian lifespans in the wild. One method of
describing worn surfaces, dental microwear texture analysis, has proved powerful for …

Hominin fossil evidence in the Turkana Basin in Kenya from ca. 4.1 to 1.4 Ma samples two
archaic early hominin genera and records some of the early evolutionary history of …