Contemporary understandings of paleoanthropological data illustrate that the search for a
line defining, or a specific point designating,“modern human” is problematic. Here we lend …

Macroevolutionary biologists have classically rejected the notion that higher-level patterns of
divergence arise through microevolutionary processes acting within populations. For …

New discoveries and dating of fossil remains from the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of
Humankind, South Africa, have strong implications for our understanding of Pleistocene …

An uncritical reliance on the phylogenetic species concept has led paleoanthropologists to
become increasingly typological in their delimitation of new species in the hominin fossil …

Paranthropus robustus is a small-brained extinct hominin from South Africa characterized by
derived, robust craniodental morphology. The most complete known skull of this species is …

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Human Evolution, we re-evaluate the
fossil record for early Homo (principally Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Homo rudolfensis) …

The family Phyllostomidae, which evolved in the New World during the last 30 million years,
represents one of the largest and most morphologically diverse mammal families. Due to its …

Morphological integration refers to the fact that different phenotypic traits of organisms are
not fully independent from each other, and tend to covary to different degrees. The …

The large brain and small postcanine teeth of modern humans are among our most
distinctive features, and trends in their evolution are well studied within the hominin clade …

Causal explanations for the dramatic changes that occurred during the evolution of the
human hip focus largely on selection for bipedal function and locomotor efficiency. These …