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.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08613-y Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago E. Ben Arous et al. 0 2025 2025-02-26
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq2677?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=34814771&et_cid=5536942 Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents W. Sun et al. 0 Awareness of Death 2025 2025-02-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25000525?via%3Dihub Testing the waters: Plant working and seafaring in Pleistocene Wallacea R. Fuentes et al. 0 2025 2025-02-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929724004579?via%3Dihub Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel C. Fortes-Lima et al. 0 2025 2025-02-26
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56155-8 Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade A. Urciuoli et al. 0 Inner Ear Canal Morphology 2025 2025-02-26
https://jphysiolanthropol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40101-024-00382-3 Human dispersal into East Eurasia: ancient genome insights and the need for research on physiological adaptations S. Abood et al. 0 2025 2025-02-26
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00206-x In Search of the Origins of Distance Hunting—The Use and Misuse of Tip Cross-sectional Geometry of Wooden Spears D. Leder et al. 0 Organized Hunting for Meat 2025 2025-02-26
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-025-09601-x Interview with Mark Moffett for theory and society K. McCaffree et al. 0 2025 2025-02-22
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56579-2 A humanized NOVA1 splicing factor alters mouse vocal communications Y. Tajima et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/sidi-zin-archaeological-project-new-investigations-into-the-acheulean-and-middle-stone-age-in-tunisia/CFE8F0DE025CB132E549EDB678CA5FDD Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: new investigations into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia E. Ben Arous et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00203-0 Refitting the Context: A Reconsideration of Cultural Change among Early Homo sapiens at Fumane Cave through Blade Break Connections, Spatial Taphonomy, and Lithic Technology A. Falcucci et al. 0 2024 2025-02-19
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324002164 How teeth record and attenuate seasonal signals D. Green et al. 0 Enamel Structure and Enamel Thickness 2025 2025-02-19
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324002188 Evidence for discrete ochre exploitation 35,000 years ago in West Africa L. Dayet et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01422-3 Fine-tuning of gene expression through the Mettl3-Mettl14-Dnmt1 axis controls ESC differentiation G. Quarto et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00202-1#citeas The Uluzzian and Châtelperronian: No Technological Affinity in a Shared Chronological Framework G. Marciani et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-024-02126-x#citeas Was fire use a cultural trait of the Gravettian? New micro-archaeological data from Fuente del Salín cave (Val de San Vicente, Cantabria) G. Alzate-Casallas et al. 0 2024 2025-02-19
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2418661121 Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools H. Ahituv et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.70007 The Ontogeny of the Human Calcaneus: Insights From Morphological and Trabecular Changes During Postnatal Growth C. Figus et al. 0 Low Trabecular Bone Density 2025 2025-02-19
https://sajs.co.za/article/view/18571 Results from an Australopithecus africanus dental enamel fragment confirm the potential of palaeoproteomics for South African Plio-Pleistocene fossil sites P. Madupe et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08450-5 Complete human recombination maps G. Palsson et al. 0 Recombination Hotspots 2025 2025-02-14
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp7478 Neuroevolution insights into biological neural computation R. Miikkulainen 0 2025 2025-02-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08540-4 A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters A. Aubry et al. 0 Aggressiveness 2025 2025-02-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08548-w Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus W. Sun et al. 0 2025 2025-02-14
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01648-8 Signal traditions and cultural loss in chimpanzees M. Malherbe et al. 0 Gesture 2025 2025-02-13
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001428 Taxonomic revision of the SK 15 mandible based on bone and tooth structural organization C. Zanolli et al. 0 2025 2025-02-13
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420067122 Flake production: A universal by-product of primate stone percussion T. Proffitt et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-02-13
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-024-00177-3#citeas A neurocognitive mechanism for increased cooperation during group formation W. Zajkowski et al. 0 Cooperative Action 2024 2025-02-05
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X%2824%2900369-0 The trait-specific timing of accelerated genomic change in the human lineage E. Kun et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125000277 Long-term hominin preference for the gallery forest edge: Insights from the Gona paleosols, Afar, Ethiopia G. Stinchcomb et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635495v1.abstract Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihood S. Perretti et al. 0 Skin Pigmentation Variation 2025 2025-02-05
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00204-z Probable Use of Labrets Among the Mid Upper Paleolithic Pavlovian Peoples of Central Europe J. Willman 0 Dentition Size and Tooth Number 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2412450122 Bonobos point more for ignorant than knowledgeable social partners L. Townrow et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.13.604521v3 Evolution of mental traits linked to cultural development in modern humans and Neanderthals Y. Moriya et al. 0 2024 2025-02-05
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.04.282749v4 Evolution is in the details: Regulatory differences in modern human and Neanderthal H. Barker et al. 0 2020 2025-02-05
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-85399-z#citeas Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change M. Will et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-83023-0#Abs1 Rapid change in red cell blood group systems after the main Out of Africa of Homo sapiens S. Mazières et al. 0 ABO (ABO blood group ), Blood Group Antigen Types and Prevalence 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224015847?dgcid=author Human evolution: The lonely Neanderthal? C. Stringer 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00208-3#citeas Nubian Levallois Cores from MIS 5 Alluvial Terraces in the Negev Desert: New Insights into the Middle Paleolithic in the Arid Regions of the Southern Levant M. Oron et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634692v1 Worldwide patterns in mythology echo the human expansion out of Africa H. Delbrassine et al. 0 2025 2025-01-29
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-024-00808-9#citeas Diversity and consequences of structural variation in the human genome R. Collins et al. 0 2025 2025-01-29
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.21.634145v1 CHD2 Dosage Ties Autolysosomal Pathway to Cortical Maturation in Disease and Evolution O. Leonardi et al. 0 2025 2025-01-29
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.14.632810v1 Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80 ka ago H. Plisson et al. 0 2025 2025-01-29
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07505-1#citeas Cortical areas associated to higher cognition drove primate brain evolution M. Melchionna et al. 0 2025 2025-01-29
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56154-9 Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago S. Curran et al. 0 2025 2025-01-22
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01594-X Socially contagious urination in chimpanzees E. Onishi et al. 0 2025 2025-01-22
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310834 High-resolution isotope dietary analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic humans from Franchthi Cave, Greece V. Martinoia et al. 0 2025 2025-01-22
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-02051-8#citeas Structural polymorphism and diversity of human segmental duplications H. Jeong et al. 0 2025 2025-01-22
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7315 Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial mammalian meat T. Lüdecke et al. 0 Carnivory, Ecological Dominance 2025 2025-01-18
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-84163-z Genome-scale evolution in local populations of wild chimpanzees. T. Hayakawa et al. 0 2025 2025-01-18
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02071-8 Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency. S. Berdugo et al. 0 2024 2025-01-18
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01919-1 Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago J. Mercader et al. 0 2025 2025-01-16
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn7954 Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees. H. Ostridge et al. 0 2024 2025-01-16
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.22054 Evolution of Human Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Hypotheses and Comparative Evidence. I. August et al. 0 2025 2025-01-15
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44636-7 Functional host-specific adaptation of the intestinal microbiome in hominids. M. Rühlemann et al. 0 Gut Microbiome 2024 2025-01-09
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-extinction/article/latequaternary-megafauna-extinctions-patterns-causes-ecological-consequences-and-implications-for-ecosystem-management-in-the-anthropocene/E885D8C5C90424254C1C75A61DE9D087 The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene J. Svenning et al. 0 2024 2025-01-09
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/children-as-agents-of-cultural-adaptation/F14F6E1809BEB70894B14FB8B5A51E91 Children as agents of cultural adaptation S. Lew-Levy et al. 0 Childhood 2024 2025-01-09
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224015665 Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis K. Bates et al. 0 Striding Bipedalism, Sustained Running Behavior 2024 2024-12-20
https://academic.oup.com/evolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolinnean/kzae033/7900502?login=true Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Speciation Complexity in Palaeoanthropology A. Meneganzin et al. 0 2024 2024-12-20
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-024-09682-5 Modeling Cultural Transmission in Structured Populations Raises Important Questions for Archaeologists L. Premo et al. 0 2024 2024-12-20
https://academic.oup.com/evolinnean/article/3/1/kzae035/7895686?login=true Perspectives on speciation R. Butlin 0 2024 2024-12-20
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq3010 Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans L. Iasi et al. 0 2024 2024-12-13
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08420-x Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture A. Sümer et al. 0 2024 2024-12-13
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2404632121 Early human collective practices and symbolism in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Southwest Asia O. Barzilai et al. 0 Art, Symbolic Representation 2024 2024-12-12
https://peerj.com/articles/18484/# Nonadjacent dependencies and sequential structure of chimpanzee action during a natural tool-use task E. Howard-Spink et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2024 2024-12-12
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124006346 Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the Atlantic rainforests of Central Africa. The case of Río Campo region in Equatorial Guinea A. Rosas et al. 0 2025 2024-12-12
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado5275 Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins K. Hatala et al. 0 2024 2024-12-06
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr3814 Mammoth featured heavily in Western Clovis diet J. Chatters et al. 0 2024 2024-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02051-y The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm G. Alagöz et al. 0 Music 2024 2024-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53918-7 Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability C. Bae et al. 0 2024 2024-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01741-0 Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy L. Pritschet et al. 0 2024 2024-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56889-3 Exploring the utility of Geometric Morphometrics to analyse prehistoric hand stencils F. Navarro et al. 0 Art, Symbolic Representation 2024 2024-12-06
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24005194 The age of hand stencils in Maltravieso cave (Extremadura, Spain) established by U-Th dating, and its implications for the early development of art C. Standish et al. 0 Art, Physical Modifications of the Body, Symbolic Representation 2025 2024-12-06
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

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