Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record
The famous Sterkfontein Caves deposit is one million years older than previously thought; a new study is published on PNAS
Complex Human Childbirth and Cognitive Abilities are a Result of Walking Upright, a new study published on Communications Biology finds
A paper in Scientific Reports concludes that Homo antecessor had a shoulders development analogous to that in Homo sapiens, although its growth was faster
Several hypothesis suggest a link between the origin of the genus Homo and the climatic and environmental changes that took place in Africa between 2.5 and 3 million years ago
