Many plants and animals are capable of developing in a variety of ways, forming characteristics
that are well adapted to the environments in which they are likely to live. In adverse …

… 3a), early human populations expanded throughout Africa, north and south of the Sahara,
also reaching the Levant (Lahr & Foley, 1998). These population expansions are supported by …

We present an Aboriginal Australian genomic sequence obtained from a 100-year-old lock
of hair donated by an Aboriginal man from southern Western Australia in the early 20th …

The bacteria Yersinia pestis is the etiological agent of plague and has caused human
pandemics with millions of deaths in historic times. How and when it originated remains …

This paper attempts to reconcile views from social anthropology, primatology, and human
sociobiology in a summary of the distinctive features of human social organization. Primate …

The origins of modern humans have been the central debate in palaeoanthropology during
the last decade. We examine the problem in the context of the history of anthropology, the …

The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we
generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan …

… The second edition of this successful text features the addition of Robert Foley, a leading
researcher in Human Evolutionary Studies, to the writing team. Strong emphasis on …

The origin of contemporary Europeans remains contentious. We obtained a genome sequence
from Kostenki 14 in European Russia dating from 38,700 to 36,200 years ago, one of the …

The contribution of language history to the study of the early dispersals of modern humans
throughout the Old World has been limited by the shallow time depth (about 8000 ± 2000 …