Eyed needles are among the most iconic of Paleolithic artifacts, traditionally seen as rare
indicators of prehistoric clothing, particularly tailoring. However, recent finds across Africa …

Abstract The Middle and Late Pleistocene is arguably the most interesting period in human
evolution. This broad period witnessed the evolution of our own lineage, as well as that of …

Despite broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, considerable uncertainty
surrounds specific models of divergence and migration across the continent. Progress is …

Although it is well known that the ancestors of modern humans and Neanderthals admixed,
the effects of gene flow on the Neanderthal genome are not well understood. We develop …

Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional
environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the …

The relationship between initial Homo sapiens dispersal from Africa to East Asia and the
orbitally paced evolution of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM)—currently the largest …

Previous scientific consensus saw human evolution as defined by adaptive differences
(behavioural and/or biological) and the emergence of Homo sapiens as the ultimate …

This review is a follow up to Grün et al.(2006): Direct Dating of Human Fossils. Since that
time there has been progress on the experimental side of the geochronological analyses …

Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa into Eurasia multiple times in the Middle and Late
Pleistocene. The route, across northeastern Africa into the Levant, is a viable terrestrial …

A comprehensive knowledge of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecular variation
worldwide is essential in human population genetics research and disease association …