On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

Palaeoanthropology: On the origin of our species

(2017) Chris Stringer et al.   NATURE

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

(2017) Chris Clarkson et al.   NATURE

New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

(2017) Jean-Jacques Hublin et al.   NATURE

The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age

(2017) Daniel Richter et al.   NATURE

An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago

(2017) K. E. Westaway et al.   NATURE

The Assimilation Model of modern human origins in light of current genetic and genomic knowledge

(2017) Fred H. Smith et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Revising the archaeological record of the Upper Pleistocene Arctic Siberia: Human dispersal and adaptations in MIS 3 and 2

(2017) Vladimir Pitulko et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals

(2017) Cosimo Posth et al.   Nature Communications

A fourth Denisovan individual

(2017) Viviane Slon et al.   Science Advances

The earliest modern Homo sapiens in China?

(2016) Véronique Michel et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

A map of human wanderlust

(2016) Serena Tucci et al.   NATURE

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

(2016) Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas et al.   NATURE

Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals

(2016) Martin Kuhlwilm et al.   NATURE

The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

(2016) Swapan Mallick et al.   NATURE

Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

(2016) Luca Pagani et al.   NATURE

Late Pleistocene climate drivers of early human migration

(2016) Axel Timmermann et al.   NATURE

Genomic analysis of Andamanese provides insights into ancient human migration into Asia and adaptation

(2016) Mayukh Mondal et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East ∼250–70,000 years ago

(2016) Paul S. Breeze et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals

(2016) B. Vernot et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis

(2016) Samantha Brown et al.   Scientific Reports

The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation

(2015) Chris Clarkson et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans

(2015) Israel Hershkovitz et al.   NATURE

An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

(2015) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

(2015) Wu Liu et al.   NATURE

Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from two Denisovan individuals

(2015) Susanna Sawyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coasting out of Africa: The potential of mangrove forests and marine habitats to facilitate human coastal expansion via the Southern Dispersal Route

(2015) Jon M. Erlandson et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

(2014) Tom Higham et al.   NATURE

Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2014) M. Aubert et al.   NATURE

Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

(2014) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

Modern human teeth from Late Pleistocene Luna Cave (Guangxi, China)

(2014) Christopher J. Bae et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

(2013) Kay Prüfer et al.   NATURE

Ash from the Toba supereruption in Lake Malawi shows no volcanic winter in East Africa at 75 ka

(2013) C. S. Lane et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene

(2013) Nicole Boivin et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution

(2012) Aylwyn Scally et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Anatomically modern human in Southeast Asia (Laos) by 46 ka

(2012) F. Demeter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The dispersal of Homo sapiens across southern Asia: how early, how often, how complex?

(2012) Robin Dennell et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Denisova Admixture and the First Modern Human Dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania

(2011) David Reich et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe

(2011) Tom Higham et al.   NATURE

Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behaviour

(2011) Stefano Benazzi et al.   NATURE

Learning about human population history from ancient and modern genomes

(2011) Mark Stoneking et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?

(2011) F. d'Errico et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Reality of Neandertal Symbolic Behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

(2011) François Caron et al.   PLoS One

The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia

(2011) Jeffrey I. Rose et al.   PLoS One

The nature of the Early to Late Paleolithic transition in Korea: Current perspectives

(2011) Christopher J. Bae et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Were bamboo tools made in prehistoric Southeast Asia? An experimental view from South China

(2011) Ofer Bar-Yosef et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The Toba volcanic super-eruption, environmental change, and hominin occupation history in India over the last 140,000 years

(2011) Michael D. Petraglia et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Following Pleistocene road signs of human dispersals across Eurasia

(2011) O. Bar-Yosef et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

(2011) Michael D. Petraglia et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Sea level and shoreline reconstructions for the Red Sea: isostatic and tectonic considerations and implications for hominin migration out of Africa

(2011) Kurt Lambeck et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Pelagic Fishing at 42,000 Years Before the Present and the Maritime Skills of Modern Humans

(2011) S. O'Connor et al.   SCIENCE

The Southern Route "Out of Africa": Evidence for an Early Expansion of Modern Humans into Arabia

(2011) S. J. Armitage et al.   SCIENCE

Out of Africa: new hypotheses and evidence for the dispersal ofHomo sapiensalong the Indian Ocean rim

(2010) Michael D. Petraglia et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

New evidence for a 67,000-year-old human presence at Callao Cave, Luzon, Philippines

(2010) Armand Salvador Mijares et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

(2010) David Reich et al.   NATURE

Human remains from Zhirendong, South China, and modern human emergence in East Asia

(2010) W. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

(2010) J. Zilhao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human Adaptation and Plant Use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 Years Ago

(2010) G. R. Summerhayes et al.   SCIENCE

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

(2010) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Environmental impact of the 73ka Toba super-eruption in South Asia

(2009) Martin A.J. Williams et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The nature of megafaunal extinctions during the MIS 3–2 transition in Japan

(2009) Christopher J. Norton et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China

(2009) Wu Liu et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Anatomical evidence for the antiquity of human footwear: Tianyuan and Sunghir

(2008) Erik Trinkaus et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul

(2008) Phillip J. Habgood et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The great arc of dispersal of modern humans: Africa to Australia

(2008) Stephen Oppenheimer   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Transitions or turnovers? Climatically-forced extinctions of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the east Mediterranean Levant

(2008) J SHEA   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas

(2008) T. Goebel et al.   SCIENCE