The hominins: a very conservative tribe? Last common ancestors, plasticity and ecomorphology in Hominidae. Or, What's in a name?

New cosmogenic burial ages for Sterkfontein Member 2 Australopithecus and Member 5 Oldowan

(2015) Darryl E. Granger et al.   NATURE

Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia

(2015) B. Villmoare et al.   SCIENCE

Analysis of joint force and torque for the human and non-human ape foot during bipedal walking with implications for the evolution of the foot

(2014) Weijie Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

A natural history of human tree climbing

(2014) Thomas S. Kraft et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Challenges to human uniqueness: bipedalism, birth and brains

(2014) A. M. Roberts et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts

(2014) Michael L. Wilson et al.   NATURE

Ecological divergence and talar morphology in gorillas

(2013) Rachel H. Dunn et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Phenotypic Plasticity of Climbing-Related Traits in the Ankle Joint of Great Apes and Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers

(2013) Vivek V. Venkataraman et al.   HUMAN BIOLOGY

Foramen magnum position in bipedal mammals

(2013) Gabrielle A. Russo et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Evolution of life history and behavior in Hominidae: Towards phylogenetic reconstruction of the chimpanzee–human last common ancestor

(2013) Pavel Duda et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

(2013) Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo et al.   PLoS One

Tree climbing and human evolution

(2013) Vivek V. Venkataraman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of compliance in the human lateral mid-foot

(2013) K. T. Bates et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Upper Limb of Australopithecus sediba

(2013) S. E. Churchill et al.   SCIENCE

The Lower Limb and Mechanics of Walking in Australopithecus sediba

(2013) J. M. DeSilva et al.   SCIENCE

Dietary and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using stable isotopes of herbivore tooth enamel from middle Pliocene Dikika, Ethiopia: Implication for Australopithecus afarensis habitat and food resources

(2012) Zelalem K. Bedaso et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

A new hominin foot from Ethiopia shows multiple Pliocene bipedal adaptations

(2012) Yohannes Haile-Selassie et al.   NATURE

Ichnotaxonomy of the Laetoli trackways: The earliest hominin footprints

(2011) D.J. Meldrum et al.   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Functional adaptations in the forelimb muscles of non-human great apes

(2011) Julia P. Myatt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Hindlimb muscle architecture in non-human great apes and a comparison of methods for analysing inter-species variation

(2011) Julia P. Myatt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Human-like external function of the foot, and fully upright gait, confirmed in the 3.66 million year old Laetoli hominin footprints by topographic statistics, experimental footprint-formation and computer simulation

(2011) R. H. Crompton et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

The Foot and Ankle of Australopithecus sediba

(2011) B. Zipfel et al.   SCIENCE

Complete Fourth Metatarsal and Arches in the Foot of Australopithecus afarensis

(2011) C. V. Ward et al.   SCIENCE

Australopithecus sediba Hand Demonstrates Mosaic Evolution of Locomotor and Manipulative Abilities

(2011) T. L. Kivell et al.   SCIENCE

More reliable estimates of divergence times in Pan using complete mtDNA sequences and accounting for population structure

(2010) A. C. Stone et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Arboreality, terrestriality and bipedalism

(2010) R. H. Crompton et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Late Miocene hominoid from Niger

(2009) Martin Pickford et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

The Kinematics of Load Carrying in Humans and Great Apes: Implications for the Evolution of Human Bipedalism

(2009) J. Watson et al.   FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA

Pierolapithecus and the functional morphology of Miocene ape hand phalanges: paleobiological and evolutionary implications

(2009) Sergio Almécija et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Independent evolution of knuckle-walking in African apes shows that humans did not evolve from a knuckle-walking ancestor

(2009) T. L. Kivell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Orangutans employ unique strategies to control branch flexibility

(2009) S. K. S. Thorpe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional morphology of the ankle and the likelihood of climbing in early hominins

(2009) J. M. DeSilva   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Careful Climbing in the Miocene: The Forelimbs of Ardipithecus ramidus and Humans Are Primitive

(2009) C. O. Lovejoy et al.   SCIENCE

Combining Prehension and Propulsion: The Foot of Ardipithecus ramidus

(2009) C. O. Lovejoy et al.   SCIENCE

The Great Divides: Ardipithecus ramidus Reveals the Postcrania of Our Last Common Ancestors with African Apes

(2009) C. O. Lovejoy et al.   SCIENCE

Symposium on ‘Human evolution: ancestors and relatives’

(2008) Bernard Wood et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Locomotion and posture from the common hominoid ancestor to fully modern hominins, with special reference to the last common panin/hominin ancestor

(2008) R. H. Crompton et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The environmental context of human evolutionary history in Eurasia and Africa

(2008) Sarah Elton   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The hominin fossil record: taxa, grades and clades

(2008) Bernard Wood et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Reconstructing phylogenies and phenotypes: a molecular view of human evolution

(2008) Brenda J. Bradley   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Invasive in vivo measurement of rear-, mid- and forefoot motion during walking

(2007) P. Lundgren et al.   GAIT & POSTURE