An earlier origin for stone tool making: implications for cognitive evolution and the transition toHomo

Associated ilium and femur from Koobi Fora, Kenya, and postcranial diversity in early Homo

(2015) Carol V. Ward et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

New actualistic data on the ecology and energetics of hominin scavenging opportunities

(2015) Briana L. Pobiner   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Reconstructed Homo habilis type OH 7 suggests deep-rooted species diversity in early Homo

(2015) Fred Spoor et al.   NATURE

New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity

(2015) Yohannes Haile-Selassie et al.   NATURE

3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya

(2015) Sonia Harmand et al.   NATURE

How similar are nut-cracking and stone-flaking? A functional approach to percussive technology

(2015) Blandine Bril et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comment on "Human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus"

(2015) S. Almecija et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2015) B. Villmoare et al.   SCIENCE

Human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus

(2015) M. M. Skinner et al.   SCIENCE

Ventromedial hypothalamic neurons control a defensive emotion state

(2015) Prabhat S Kunwar et al.   eLife

Evolution of early Homo: An integrated biological perspective

(2014) S. C. Anton et al.   SCIENCE

Use of stone hammer tools and anvils by bearded capuchin monkeys over time and space: construction of an archeological record of tool use

(2013) Visalberghi Elisabetta et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Pedogenic carbonate stable isotopic evidence for wooded habitat preference of early Pleistocene tool makers in the Turkana Basin

(2013) Rhonda L. Quinn et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Primate Prefrontal Cortex Evolution: Human Brains Are the Extreme of a Lateralized Ape Trend

(2011) J.B. Smaers et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Geological summary of the Busidima Formation (Plio-Pleistocene) at the Hadar paleoanthropological site, Afar Depression, Ethiopia

(2011) Christopher J. Campisano   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Loss of air sacs improved hominin speech abilities

(2011) Bart de Boer   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Functional mastery of percussive technology in nut-cracking and stone-flaking actions: experimental comparison and implications for the evolution of the human brain

(2011) B. Bril et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stone tools, language and the brain in human evolution

(2011) D. Stout et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Australopithecus sediba Hand Demonstrates Mosaic Evolution of Locomotor and Manipulative Abilities

(2011) T. L. Kivell et al.   SCIENCE

Technological variation in the earliest Oldowan from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

(2010) Dietrich Stout et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

(2010) Shannon P. McPherron et al.   NATURE

A central role for the lateral prefrontal cortex in goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention

(2010) Christopher L Asplund et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

New insights into hominin lithic activities at FLK North Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

(2010) F. Diez-Martin et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

“Lucy” redux: A review of research on Australopithecus afarensis

(2009) William H. Kimbel et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Primate archaeology

(2009) Michael Haslam et al.   NATURE

Chaînes opératoires and resource-exploitation strategies in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nut cracking

(2008) Susana Carvalho et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION