Anthropogeny Publications Exchange (APE)

The Anthropogeny Publications Exchange (APE) is a resource for anthropogeny-related publications informing on human evolution, origins, and uniqueness. It also serves as a reference repository for the Matrix of Comparative Anthropogeny (MOCA). The number of possible additions to APE are limitless, however we have chosen to focus on those with a maximum relevance to anthropogeny using the following criteria:

  • Relevance for understanding the evolutionary origins of the human species
  • Research that informs on the origins of uniquely human features
  • Comparative studies of other species relevant to understanding human uniqueness
  • Broad interest and appeal to CARTA members
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https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/7/4/49 Were Neanderthals the First Collectors? First Evidence Recovered in Level 4 of the Prado Vargas Cave, Cornejo, Burgos and Spain M. Ruiz et al. 0 2024 2024-11-27
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002857 Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways V. Wilson et al. 0 2024 2024-11-27
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X24001291?via%3Dihub Archaic hominin admixture and its consequences for modern humans D. Tagore et al. 0 2025 2024-11-27
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/expanding-the-causal-menu-an-interventionist-perspective-on-explaining-human-behavioral-evolution/2F04DB41767ECC180128342C40582338 Expanding the causal menu: An interventionist perspective on explaining human behavioural evolution R. Planer et al. 0 2024 2024-11-27
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409542121 Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization T. Püschel et al. 0 Brain Size 2024 2024-11-27
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54767-0#citeas Mid-Pleistocene aridity and landscape shifts promoted Palearctic hominin dispersals J. Zan et al. 0 2024 2024-11-27
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001234?dgcid=author Hominin fossil inventory: Quantification and comparison of discrete regional and element representation among early African fossil hominins prior to the emergence of Homo erectus R. McRae et al. 0 2025 2024-11-27
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322874121 Genes, culture, and scientific racism K. Lala et al. 0 2024 2024-11-22
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003552124000682 Neandertal burial practices in Western Asia: How different are they from those of the early Homo sapiens? E. Been et al. 0 Beliefs About Death 2024 2024-11-22
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322883121 Cultural transmission among hunter-gatherers B. Hewlett et al. 0 Cultural Transmission 2024 2024-11-22
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409674121 Metabolic scaling, energy allocation tradeoffs, and the evolution of humans’ unique metabolism A. Yegian et al. 0 2024 2024-11-22
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3381 Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture C. Gunasekaram et al. 0 Cultural Transmission 2024 2024-11-22
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01002-7 Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers B. Wood et al. 0 2021 2024-11-22
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/grouplevel-signatures-in-bonobo-sociality/C992A9B45BB6029E37433CDE37FEA8AA?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork Group-level signatures in bonobo sociality E. van Leeuwen et al. 0 2024 2024-11-22
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-024-02786-4 Assigning a social status from face adornments: an fMRI study M. Salagnon et al. 0 Physical Modifications of the Body 2024 2024-11-20
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/54436 The oxford handbook of the archaeology and anthropology of body modification F. Manni et al. 0 Physical Modifications of the Body 2023 2024-11-20
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996124002079?via%3Dihub Role of cell metabolism in the pathophysiology of brain size-associated neurodevelopmental disorders L. Xing et al. 0 Brain Size 2024 2024-11-20
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-112122-032521 What Makes Us Human: Insights from the Evolution and Development of the Human Neocortex T. Namba et al. 0 ARHGAP11B (Rho GTPase Activating Protein 11B) 2024 2024-11-20
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47437-8 Functional synergy of a human-specific and an ape-specific metabolic regulator in human neocortex development L. Xing et al. 0 ARHGAP11B (Rho GTPase Activating Protein 11B) 2024 2024-11-20
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.25576 Neocortical neurogenesis in development and evolution—Human‐specific features W. Huttner et al. 0 ARHGAP11B (Rho GTPase Activating Protein 11B) 2024 2024-11-20
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691238777/father-time?srsltid=AfmBOoquW4aT4HRKRfcT4NpzYV-RuhUI3Bm2EGBntBjJAsUqJykJU_a5 Father time: A natural history of men and babies S. Hrdy 0 Paternal Care 2024 2024-11-20
https://www.human-biology-and-public-health.org/index.php/hbph/article/view/79 Soulful rhythm, dancing bodies: A review on spirituality, pain tolerance, and the risk of lower extremity musculoskeletal and back injuries among classical Kathak dancers of India A. Dewari et al. 0 Dancing 2024 2024-11-20
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08205-2 Dental evidence for extended growth in early Homo from Dmanisi C. Zollikofer et al. 0 Adolescent Growth Spurt, Growth of Enamel and Dentine 2024 2024-11-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53852-8 Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift D. Pandey et al. 0 2024 2024-11-13
https://academic.oup.com/evolinnean/article/3/1/kzae029/7848478 Common misconceptions of speciation J. Walker et al. 0 2024 2024-11-13
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02035-y Human culture is uniquely open-ended rather than uniquely cumulative T. Morgan et al. 0 2024 2024-11-13
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124005274 A Neanderthal's specialised burning structure compatible with tar obtention J. Ochando et al. 0 2024 2024-11-13
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01960-y A history of multiple Denisovan introgression events in modern humans L. Ongaro et al. 0 2024 2024-11-06
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-024-02075-5 Wonderboom, South Africa: An Acheulean workshop with evidence of flake harvesting M. Lotter et al. 0 2024 2024-11-06
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324001547 Magnetic detection of anthropogenic fires at Xiaodong Rockshelter, Southwest China Y. Zheng et al. 0 Control of Fire 2024 2024-11-06
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/B3C2D400F3F80A7A0162D9035C9C2804 Seals and signs: tracing the origins of writing in ancient South-west Asia K. Kelley et al. 0 2024 2024-11-06
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado0952 Subjective well-being across the life course among non-industrialized populations M. Gurven et al. 0 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01153-X An archaic HLA class I receptor allele diversifies natural killer cell-driven immunity in First Nations peoples of Oceania L. Loh et al. 0 HLA-DRB1 family 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado3486 Neurodevelopmental timing and socio-cognitive development in a prosocial cooperatively breeding primate (Callithrix jacchus) P. Cerrito et al. 0 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/BA22259E65ED9C6A83AA0F6AFD5058FA Cultural evolution as inheritance, not intentions A. Bentley et al. 0 Cultural Transmission 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53050-6#Abs1 Ochre communities of practice in Stone Age Eswatini B. MacDonald et al. 0 Cultural Transmission 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/732354#d27768543e1 Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively? E. Morin et al. 0 Organized Hunting for Meat 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01931-3#citeas Heterogeneous genetic architectures of prostate cancer susceptibility in sub-Saharan Africa. R. Janivara et al. 0 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S295023652400032X Coasting into India? - Assessing lithostratigraphic context of Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Saurashtra Peninsula G. Jha et al. 0 2024 2024-11-01
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.22050 The evolutionary origin of human kissing A. Lameira 0 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02462-0#citeas Long-term biotic homogenization in the East African Rift System over the last 6 million years of hominin evolution. J. Rowan et al. 0 2024 2024-10-23
https://brill.com/view/journals/ijfp/95/3/article-p211_3.xml Characterizing the vaginal microbiome in a sexually fluid primate (Pan paniscus). S. Samartino et al. 0 2024 2024-10-21
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/e0a1b1f4-cff7-4c21-b2de-30d53506e90c The conservation of Shanidar Z at a glance L. López-Polín et al. 0 2024 2024-10-20
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440323002005 The first identification of composite paints with proteinaceous binder in Upper Palaeolithic (31–23 ka) organic decorations L. Golovanova et al. 0 2024 2024-10-20
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51150-x Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy O. Higgins et al. 0 2024 2024-10-20
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/B3950C679C1005BD08F97047DBED737F Mass-hunting in South-west Asia at the dawn of sedentism: new evidence from Şanlıurfa, south-east Türkiye F. Şahin et al. 0 Organized Hunting for Meat 2024 2024-10-20
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn0609 Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation F. Yilmaz et al. 0 AMY1A (amylase, alpha 1A) 2024 2024-10-17
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347%2821%2900307-4 Denisovans and Homo sapiens on the Tibetan Plateau: dispersals and adaptations P. Zhang et al. 0 2022 2024-10-17
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01703-1 Pulsatory volcanism in the Main Ethiopian Rift and its environmental consequences Z. Franceschini et al. 0 2024 2024-10-17
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01284-3 Deep genetic substructure within bonobos S. Han et al. 0 2024 2024-10-17
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000941 The controversial origins of war and peace: apes, foragers, and human evolution L. Glowacki 0 Organized Warfare 2024 2024-10-17
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07643-2 Semantic encoding during language comprehension at single-cell resolution M. Jamali et al. 0 2024 2024-10-10
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842400099X Humanlike manual activities in Australopithecus J. Kunze et al. 0 2024 2024-10-10
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52672-0 Arid, mosaic environments during the Plio-Pleistocene transition and early hominin dispersals in northern Africa I. Ramírez-Pedraza et al. 0 2024 2024-10-10
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.25027 Temporal lobe evolution in Hominidae and the origin of human lobe proportions A. Pearson et al. 0 Brain Size, Volume of Temporal Lobe White Matter 2024 2024-10-10
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk7898 The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions T. Matthews et al. 0 2024 2024-10-10
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24998 Morphological and morphometric study of the hominin dental casts from Grotta-Riparo di Uluzzo C (Apulia, southern Italy) F. Seghi et al. 0 2024 2024-10-10
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07686-5 Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila P. Schlegel et al. 0 2024 2024-10-03
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001076 The dentition of a new adult Neanderthal individual from Grotte Mandrin, France J. Fuchs et al. 0 2024 2024-10-03
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44294-024-00038-8 The biomechanical evolution of the uterus and cervix and fetal growth in human pregnancy E. Louwagie et al. 0 2024 2024-10-03
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp3757 Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates G. Oren et al. 0 Auditory-Vocal Communication 2024 2024-10-03
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729425 Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution J. Arce et al. 0 Mind-Altering Drug Use 2021 2024-10-03
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06966-0#Abs1 First evolutionary insights into the human otolithic system C. Smith et al. 0 Inner Ear Canal Morphology 2024 2024-10-03
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24004140 Traceological features of anthropogenic incisions on Yuka Mammoth’ hide (Yakutia) N. Akhmetgaleeva et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2024 2024-10-03
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/54436/chapter/481659639?login=true Finger Amputation in the Ethnographic and Archaeological Record B. McCauley et al. 0 Physical Modifications of the Body, Symbolic Representation 2024 2024-09-26
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2024/09/25/2024.09.24.614243.abstract Neanderthal-derived variants shape craniofacial enhancer activity at a human disease locus K. Uttley et al. 0 2024 2024-09-26
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(24)00608-1 A neural basis of choking under pressure A. Smoulder et al. 0 2024 2024-09-26
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/54436/chapter/481650804?login=true An Integrated Evolutionary Scenario for the Culturalization of the Human Body F. d’Errico et al. 0 Physical Modifications of the Body 2024 2024-09-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818124002327 The expression of the MIS 12 glacial stage in Southeastern Europe and its impact over the Middle Pleistocene hominins in Megalopolis Basin (Greece) G. Butiseacă et al. 0 2024 2024-09-26
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00193-z Stone Tools in Shifting Sands: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives on the Châtelperronian Stone Tool Industry I. Djakovic et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2024 2024-09-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618214002110 Paleolithic culture of Longgupo and its creators G. Wei et al. 0 2014 2024-09-20
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01977261.2024.2402601 Assessing the Role of Early “Large Cutting Tools” in Flake Production: an Experimental Comparison of Early Acheulean Handaxe and Oldowan Core Manufacture J. Clark 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2024 2024-09-20
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.13136 The origin of great ape gestural forms K. Graham et al. 0 Gesture 2024 2024-09-20
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02532-3 9,000 years of genetic continuity in southernmost Africa demonstrated at Oakhurst rockshelter J. Gretzinger et al. 0 2024 2024-09-20
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado2733 The uniqueness of human vulnerability to brain aging in great ape evolution S. Vickery et al. 0 Cortical Morphology 2024 2024-09-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07911-1 Recurrent evolution and selection shape structural diversity at the amylase locus D. Bolognini et al. 0 AMY1A (amylase, alpha 1A) 2024 2024-09-12
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2023.866407 An HLA map of the world: A comparison of HLA frequencies in 200 worldwide populations reveals diverse patterns for class I and class II E. Arrieta-Bolaños et al. 0 2023 2024-09-12
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11759-024-09491-y Quarries as Places of Significance in the Lower Paleolithic Holy Triad of Elephants, Water, and Stone M. Finkel et al. 0 2024 2024-09-12
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0521?mc_cid=0e1f220aed&mc_eid=0227406545#d1e624 Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language B. Wood et al. 0 2024 2024-09-12
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41/8/msae156/7724092?login=true Fast and Accurate Estimation of Selection Coefficients and Allele Histories from Ancient and Modern DNA A. Vaughn et al. 0 2024 2024-09-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-70206-y Reconstructing contact and a potential interbreeding geographical zone between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans S. Guran et al. 0 2024 2024-09-12
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X24001770 Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction L. Slimak et al. 0 2024 2024-09-12
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871101424001158 Chronology of the late Lower and Middle Palaeolithic at Tabun Cave (Mount Carmel, Israel) with insights into diagenesis and dose rate variation using post-IR IRSL (pIRIR290) dating and infrared spectroscopy M. Richard et al. 0 2024 2024-08-27
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0307975 Increased alertness and moderate ingroup cohesion in bonobos’ response to outgroup cues J. Brooks et al. 0 2024 2024-08-27
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X24000856 Evolutionary innovations in the primate dopaminergic system H. Doll et al. 0 2024 2024-08-27
https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qrae045/7735307?searchresult=1&login=true The role of between-group signaling in the evolution of primate ornamentation C. Grueter et al. 0 2024 2024-08-27
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14115 Disparate and parallel craniofacial climatic adaptations in native populations of Asia, North America, and South America A. Evteev et al. 0 Prognathism 2024 2024-08-27
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67817-w First identification of a Neanderthal bone spear point through an interdisciplinary analysis at Abric Romaní (NE Iberian Peninsula) P. Mateo-Lomba et al. 0 2024 2024-08-23
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02522-5 Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa A. Barr et al. 0 2024 2024-08-22
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2024.0101 Searching for the earliest archaeological record: insights from chimpanzee material landscapes J. Reeves et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2024 2024-08-22
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424000873 A 4.3-million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis mandible from Ileret, East Turkana, Kenya, and its paleoenvironmental context J. Lewis et al. 0 2024 2024-08-22
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.20.608876v1 Archaic introgression and the distribution of shared variation under stabilizing selection A. Ragsdale 0 2024 2024-08-22
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1271854 Music as aposematic signal: predator defense strategies in early human evolution J. Jordania 0 Music 2024 2024-08-16
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380465161_Defense_Strategies_in_Early_Human_Evolution Defense Strategies in Early Human Evolution J. Jordania 0 2024 2024-08-16
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324001067 Living on the edge: Abric Pizarro, a MIS 4 Neanderthal site in the lowermost foothills of the southeastern Pre-Pyrenees (Lleida, Iberian Peninsula) S. Carro et al. 0 2024 2024-08-16
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/49D5AEACCEA56622FEB88C0F248C63EE Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000–50 000 years ago D. Gaffney et al. 0 2024 2024-08-16
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-69056-5 Contextualizing wild cereal harvesting at Middle Palaeolithic Ghar-e Boof in the southern Zagros S. Riehl et al. 0 2024 2024-08-16
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25550 Early Neanderthal mandibular remains from Baume Moula-Guercy (Soyons, Ardèche) G. Richards et al. 0 2024 2024-08-16
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50649-7 Early evolution of small body size in Homo floresiensis Y. Kaifu et al. 0 2024 2024-08-08
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/25 No Sedimentological Evidence for Deliberate Burial by Homo naledi – A Case Study Highlighting the Need for Best Practices in Geochemical Studies Within Archaeology and Paleoanthropology K. Foecke et al. 0 In Press 2024-08-08

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